num_pages: 155
description: Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
language: English
title: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846
titlecomplete: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 (My Name Is America)
genres: American, United States, Historical, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Diary, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 532
series: My Name Is America
publisher: Scholastic Inc.