The Archaeology Of The Donner Party.(Brief article)(Book review)

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The Archaeology Of The Donner Party

Donald L. Hardesty, et. al.

University of Nevada Press

Mail Stop 166, Reno, NV, 89557-0076

0874176611 $18.95 1-877-682-6657

Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology Donald Hardesty presents The Archaeology Of The Donner Party, an extensively researched history of an ill-fated expedition to California in the winter of 1846-1847. Trapped by snow in the uppermost reaches of the Sierra Nevada, half of the Donner Party perished from starvation; the remaining half had to cannibalize their dead to survive. The tragedy ...

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