Winter of Entrapment: A New Look at the Donner Party
- Publisher
- PD Meany Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- 19th Century
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888350305
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
In Winter of Entrapment, Joseph A. King tells for the first time the true story of the most famous of all wagon trains, the Donner Party. Of eighty-nine persons in the party, forty-one perished on the trail or in the mountain camps. Some survived by eating the dead. But this is an inspiring story containing, in the author’s view, many heroes and heroines and very few villains
About the author
JOSEPH A. KING is the author of seven books and a contributor to Patterns of Migration, in the award-winning “The Irish World Wide” series, for the University of Leicester Press. As the author of the highly-praised Winter of Entrapment: A New Look at the Donner Party (1992), he served as a consultant and appeared in two films for TV (The American Experience and The Real West series) shown in the United States and abroad in 1992 and 1994 about the tragic overland wagon train. With Peter Berresford Ellis, he co-authored for The Irish Sword (1992) a study of the Fenian invasion of Canada.