TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hubbard,Ben
AU  - Foley,Tim
TI  - What was the Donner Party?
T2  - What was...?
SN  - 9780593520741
AV  - F868.N5 H85 2023
U1  - 978 HUB 23/eng/20230607
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Workshop
KW  - Donner Party
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - California
KW  - Biography
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Overland journeys to the Pacific
KW  - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 106); What Was the Donner Party? -- Westward Ho! -- Jumping Off -- Forts, Friends, and Foes -- The Hastings Cutoff -- Into the Mountains -- Snowed In -- Relief Parties -- History Remembers; 3-6; 900L; Lexile
N2  - In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty-eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures,    
    including cannibalism. Learn about the many miscalculations, bad decisions, and extreme weather that led to the demise of nearly half of the Donner Party in this book for young readers about one of California's first major disasters
ER  -