Author: GALLOWAY, DAVID
Title: Tamsen - a Novel of the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party and the Heroism of an Extraordinary Woman
Description: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1983, First. (ISBN: 0151879923). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on quarter cloth and brown boards which have some marks to lower front. Internally very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is VG with a mark to back and is not price clipped. 431 pages. Map endpapers of the Route of the Donner Party. The story of the Donner Party is one of the most calamitous and troubling in the history of the American West. In October of 1846 a party of 79 men, women and children under the leadership of George Donner attempted to cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains to California. Trapped by early snows, 35 of them perished. Those who survived sustained life by consuming the flesh of their dead comrades. This account of their ordeal makes liberal use of the mechanisms of fiction, but at no point does it intentionally depart rom the evidence preserved by history. 22. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: George Donner, Donner Party 0151879923


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