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The Best Land Under Heaven

the Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Nov 02, 2017Pressroom rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
This is a thoroughly researched history of the Donner Party disaster, but the first half really drags. I skimmed through some pages because there is just soooo much detail! I don't really need to know that someone was an Irish immigrant and who he married and what work he did, if he's never going to figure again in the history. To be frank, I found the first half of this book really dull reading. It picks up quite a bit once everyone gets stuck in the mountains and I certainly learned much more about what the survivors did to survive at all. The use of actual interview material, or letters, added authenticity to the accounts. If you can make it through the first dreadfully boring half of the book, the latter part becomes quite the page turner.