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Desperate Passage

By Ethan Rarick

Desperate Passage Social Sciences

Desperate Passage

By Ethan Rarick

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Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2009-07-08
Publication Date:
2009-07-08
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195383311
ISBN13:
9780195383317
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
466 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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