Winter of Entrapment : A New Look at the Donner Party

P.D. Meany Publishers, 10/01/92 12:00 AM. Paperback. Very Good. 0x6x9. 0888350325 Review ...we have selected it for the cover story of The Californians [July/Aug 1992], the magazine of California history. -- The Editor, The Californians I received my copy of Winter of Entrapment yesterday and have hardly put it down since. -- Editor, News from the Plains, Oregon-California Trails Association Solid research strengthens an account that includes many documents which have not seen light in other Donner Party reviews. -- Bookwatch, San Francisco Product Description During the winter of of 1846-47 over eighty men, women and children of the Donner Party wagon train were trapped in the snows of California's High Sierras. thiry-nine perished on the trail or in the mountain camps. Some survived by eating the dead. This book gives a thorough and readable account and corrects many misconceptions of previous writers.