Title: The Donner Party
Description: Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Survival, Donner Party, Pioneers, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Juvenile literature, Biography, Wilderness survival, Political science, juvenile literature, Political science
Places: California, West (U.S.)