The Greatest Men's Party on Earth
Author : John Van der Zee
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
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Author : John Van der Zee
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
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Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0871407701
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award A Publishers Weekly Holiday Guide History Pick “A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down.... Superb.” —New York Times Book Review "WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. With The Best Land Under Heaven, Wallis has penned what critics agree is “destined to become the standard account” (Washington Post) of the notorious saga. Cutting through 160 years of myth-making, the “expert storyteller” (True West) compellingly recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate. Interweaving information from hundreds of newly uncovered documents, Wallis illuminates how a combination of greed and recklessness led to one of America’s most calamitous and sensationalized catastrophes. The result is a “fascinating, horrifying, and inspiring” (Oklahoman) examination of the darkest side of Manifest Destiny.
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1924
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Church history
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Author : Henry Smith Williams
Publisher :
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 1907
Category : World history
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Author : Sheila Anne Barry
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780806964843
Presents instructions for more than 100 easy-to-play party games for all ages.
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Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 448 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Temperance
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Author : Timothy Dwight
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Literature
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Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor.
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Page : 746 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1899
Category : United States
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