All We Left Behind: Virginia Reed and the Donner Party - Softcover

Herman, Nancy

 
9781490317793: All We Left Behind: Virginia Reed and the Donner Party
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1490317791 ISBN 13: 9781490317793
Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

In 1846 the Reed and Donner families leave Illinois on a 2,000-mile journey to California in search of free land and a healthy climate. Thirteen-year-old Virginia Reed is thrilled to ride ahead of the wagons each day beside her adored father.But enthusiasm turns to alarm when her father and other party leaders make decisions that put the families dangerously behind schedule. Provisions dwindle. Hardships mount. Anger erupts. In a frantic effort to reach California before winter, the Donner Party takes an untried shortcut, with heartbreaking results.Virginia acknowledges the fallibility of the adults in her life and begins to rely on her own judgment. When the party becomes trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by early snows, she must find the courage to defy her father in order to save the rest of her family.

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Verlag
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1490317791
ISBN 13 
9781490317793
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
236
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