Snow Mountain Passage
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Snow Mountain Passage by James D Houston
Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of our most dramatic pioneer story--the ordeal of the Donner Party. Through the eyes of James Frazier Reed, one of the group's leaders, and the imagined "Trail Notes" of his daughter Patty, we journey along with the ill-fated group determined, at all costs, to make it to the California territory.James Reed is a proud, headstrong, yet devoted husband and father. As he and his family travel in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built--and ultimately cumbersome--covered wagon, they thrill to new sights and cope with conflict and constant danger. Yet when a fight between Reed and another driver ends in death, Reed is exiled from the group and heads over the mountains alone. The fate of the other families, including Reed's wife and four children, is sealed when they set out across a new, untested route through the Sierra--their final mountain pass. Arriving at the foothills just as the snows start to fall, they are left stranded for months--starving, freezing, and battling to survive--while Reed journeys across northern California, trying desperately to find means and men for a rescue party.
An extraordinary tale of pride and redemption, Snow Mountain Passage is a brilliantly imagined and grippingly told story straight from American history.
*National Bestseller
Continental Drift, Loving Life, The Last Paradise--which won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Novel Award in 1999--and White Mountain Passage are among James D. Houston's seven novels. Californians and Goodbye to Manzanar, which he coauthored with his wife, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, are two of his nonfiction works. He has received the Humanities Award, an NEA writing fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation residency. He was a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He resides in Santa Cruz, California.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780156011433 |
| ISBN 10 | 0156011433 |
| Title | Snow Mountain Passage |
| Author | James D Houston |
| Series | Harvest Book |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2002-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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