Started: 12/23/2024
Finished: 1/7/2025
Year: 2009
Pages: 288
Genre: History
Grade: B+
Reason for reading: library book
Type: hardcover
Blurb (from Amazon): "In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes, and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors."
Opinion: Recent shows have brought new light to this horrific journey. This book goes into depth about the daily struggle that everyone faced.
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