From the author of "Farewell to Manzanar" comes a powerful retelling of the Donner story through the eyes of one member of the party and his eight-year-old daughter. "Snow Mountain Passage" is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption, of the sheer endurance and bravery required in the creation of a new country, and of the thrilling early days of California.
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From the author of "Farewell to Manzanar" comes a powerful retelling of the Donner story through the eyes of one member of the party and his eight-year-old daughter. "Snow Mountain Passage" is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption, of the sheer endurance and bravery required in the creation of a new country, and of the thrilling early days of California.
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**STOCK PHOTOS AND CATALOG INFO MAY VARY FROM ACTUAL BOOK, PLEASE REFER TO SELLER PHOTOS AND ITEM DESCRIPTION FOR MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION. THE SELLER PHOTO SHOWS THE EXACT COPY YOU WILL RECEIVE** This is a used book in VERY GOOD condition, meaning it has very minor or unnoticeable defects. Hardcover edition. Includes original dust jacket.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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As New in Near Fine jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, as new in near fine brown pictorial dust jacket showing an illusration of wild horses in mountain snow. First Edition. Inside covers and endpapers show a map of the trail of the Donner Party 1846 inside covers and adjacent end papers, 317 pages.
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Fine/Fine. Size: 6x1x9; Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 317 pages, brown and beige boards; map end papers. A fine, clean, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine slightly worn dust jacket, with the original price.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated 'With greetings to Doris from the house where Patty Reed once lived, Santa Cruz' by the author on the title page. Stated first edition, no number line (1st printing). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket as new except for faint edgewear. Book has mild softening to the base of the spine and traces of foxing to the edges of the pageblock. The late author lived in the house once occupied by Patty Reed, the Donner party survivor whose family is the subject of the book. He was the winner of two American Book Awards, a Joseph Henry Jackson Award for Fiction, and the Humanitas Prize and was the author of 'Bird of Another Heaven' and 'Farewell to Manzanar'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
I admit to being a bit disappointed in the book. There was far too much Jim Reed and not enough Donner Party. The sections concerning Jim Reed and the US/Mexican war were pretty boring. Interspersed among these chapters were excerpts from Patty Reed's (Jim's daughter) notes from the trail. These were quite good and kept me going as I skimmed or skipped whole chapters of Jim's story.
