Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of The Donner Party Donner Party stretches far beyond its shores

stretches far beyond its shores

visitors still carry cameras and vow to visit again next year

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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of The Donner Party Donner Party stretches far beyond its shoresAward winning author George R. Stewart's history of the Donner Party is compulsive reading a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of horrifying episode in the history of the west" (Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty seven people men, women, and children set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route.