The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

by Michael Wallis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871407698
• ISBN13: 9780871407696
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"