Desperate passage : the Donner Party's perilous journey West
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over theSierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter
eBook, English, 2008
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008