Overland in 1846-Set

by Dale L. Morgan

"We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present Calamity," wrote Patrick Breen on the first day of 1847 as he and others in the Donner party awaited rescue from the snowbound Sierras. His famous diary appears in Overland in 1846 , edited and annotated by Dale L. Morgan. This handsome two-volume work includes not only primary sources of the Donner tragedy but also the letters and journals of other emigrants on the trail that year. Their voices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803231784
• ISBN13: 9780803231788
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 2 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.