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Poetically recreates the sufferings and hardships endured by the Donner Party while trapped in the Sierras during winter
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First published in 1970, The Donner Party is the story of a wagon train, led by George Donner, which set out from Springfield, Illinois, in 1846, headed for California. George Keithley’s restrained and vivid narrative poem is a harrowing portrait of a group that was pushed to extreme measures in order to survive.
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