The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846
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The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846

Rodman Philbrick
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Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Genres: Historical FictionMiddle GradeFictionHistoricalYoung AdultChildrensSurvivalAmericanDiaryUnited States
155 Pages

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