Ordeal by Hunger by George Rippey Stewart

Ordeal by Hunger by George Rippey Stewart

Award-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. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George R. Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers. Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party is an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

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Title	Ordeal by Hunger
Author	George Rippey Stewart
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