Name: The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny (en Inglés)
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Author: Wallis, Michael
ISBN: 9781631494000

portada The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Michael Wallis

Editorial

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

496

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.6 x 14.0 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781631494000

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Historia general y del mundo
Historia de américa
Descubrimiento y exploración geográficas
Historia local

The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny (en Inglés)

Michael Wallis (Autor) · Liveright Publishing Corporation · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny (en Inglés)"

"WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada.We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. With The Best Land Under Heaven, Wallis has penned what critics agree is "destined to become the standard account" (Washington Post) of the notorious saga. Cutting through 160 years of myth-making, the "expert storyteller" (True West) compellingly recounts how the unlikely band of early pioneers met their fate. Interweaving information from hundreds of newly uncovered documents, Wallis illuminates how a combination of greed and recklessness led to one of America's most calamitous and sensationalized catastrophes. The result is a "fascinating, horrifying, and inspiring" (Oklahoman) examination of the darkest side of Manifest Destiny.