Please note that Summit Skyride and SkyHike are not included with an Attractions Pass, but are available as $ 5 Add-Ons to this ticket during check-out. But also heartbreaking, this book written by the co-author of Farewell To Manzanar tells the story of The Donner Party from two points of view, the unlucky self proclaimed leader of sorts, James Frazier Reed and his natural first born daughter, Patty. The covers of the book advertise this book as the story of the Donner Party, which it is in the beginning and end of the book. You also get to read about a pristine California when San Francisco was known as Yerrba Buena before being renamed and the Mexican-Spanish War gaining momentum for one last struggle before California becomes part of The United States. Although the cover proclaims This is a beautiful, beautiful book, brimming with emotion and rooted in the majesty and danger of nature. Set just a couple of years before the Gold Rush, the story includes a wild cast of characters, most of all Jim Frazier Reed and his decision to move his family from a prosperous farm in Illinois to the unknown and far off land of California. Although the cover proclaims James Houston tells the story of the Donner party from the point of view of James Reed, a member of the wagon train who did not spend the winter of 1846 in the Sierra Nevadas. Finally, the tragedy of the trapped and starving people who survived the Sierra Nevada winter and resorted to eating human flesh. 0156011433 I raced through the first half of the book and the journal entries were compelling. The historic plot requires that he track different parties operating at once. For those of you who have gone to school in the last few years, you more than likely don't. The story itself is a page turner but I also enjoyed reading about the history of California prior to the gold rush. I would've been good if that part was shorteThis book is told in two different ways. Her father is banished from the group of travelers and makes it across the mountains before the rest are snowed in. I read this book because I saw the author's obituary and he sounded like an interesting guy. Anybody interested in American history or California history would enjoy -- also if you like books about people's spirit/will and the amazing nature of human survival.One of the best historical novels I've read. If the rating system was for writing alone I would have given this book a five star.
Her father is banished from the group of travelers and makes it across the mountains before the rest are snowed in. This is a well written piece of American history and does not dwell on the more ghoulish aspects of the story.The author became interested in her story after he discovers he lives in her house in Santa Cruz CA many years later.This book is told in two different ways. Little Angels is included in a Snow Mountain Pass. His work includes Snow Mountain Passage and Farewell to Manzanar. That kind of story sticks with a child. Told from the perspective of an older woman who survives the disastrous Donner Party passage through the Sierras as a child. But they think everything has tThis book is about the "Donner Party."
The story line alternates viewpoints between James's desperate efforts to rescue his beloved family and through the six-decade-old memory of one of his daughters looking back to the disaster. Provides a different view of the Donner party. This shifting narrative keeps things moving. As she looks back, the series of mistakes, bad choices and personality clashes lead to a tragic ordeal that has become a well known American pioneer story. The book doesn't read anything like a history lesson. The second half of the book (or rather part 2 since I think it isn't actually half way), I found myself skimming over it at times. There are the journal entries giving it a feel of nonfiction and then the rest of the story being told be the writer. The writing is spectacular, couldn't be smoother, and the fictional clockwork of the real life tragedy was had me wanting more with every page that passed.This is a tough read - meaning emotionally tough, heart-breaking at times, but triumphant in the end - and I could hardly put it down. Really powerful and moving for me because some of what you read may have, could have happened to real people.
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