The Donner Party
Author | : George Keithley |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807616185 |
ISBN-13 | : 0807616184 |
Rating | : 4/5 (184 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Donner Party written by George Keithley and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the three or four finest book-length American poems ever-written.”—Poetry 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.