Donner Dinner Party A Pioneer Tale

Nathan Hale

eBook - 2013

New York Times Bestselling Series!“These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” —New York Times  Discover the shocking and true story of the ill-fated Donner Party expedition with the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!  In the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey toward a new life in California. To save time, they took an ill-advised shortcut—with disastrous consequences. Their story would not take them to California but into history.  Bad weather, bad choices, and just plain bad luck forced the pioneers to spend a long, cold winter in the mountains, slowly starving. What they did to stay ali...ve and the lengths that others went to in order to rescue them make this one of the most tragic and infamous stories of the American frontier.  Nathan Hale’s Hazardous... more