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Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus - Fall 2012 | ||
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 | Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West (1st Edition) by Ethan Rarick (Adjunct Professor, Uc Berkeley) Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-538331-1 / 0195383311 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538331-7 / 9780195383317 In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a | |