Snow Mountain Passage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Snow Mountain Passage write by James D. Houston. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Snow Mountain Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined "Trail Notes" of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told.
A Native Son of the Golden West
A Native Son of the Golden West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Native Son of the Golden West write by James D. Houston. This book was released on 1971. A Native Son of the Golden West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Big Snow
The Big Snow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Snow write by Robert A. Boyd. This book was released on 2017-03-13. The Big Snow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disaster Is Brewing In Donner Pass...Winter in the High Sierras has always been a challenge, but this time is different. Global warming has spawned an endless series of blizzards the likes of which have never been seen before. Even the proud Union Pacific is reeling from the onslaught.But the relentless storms and equipment breakdowns are only the beginning. They face a crisis at Donner Summit: a passenger train wrecked in the most dangerous, inhospitable terrain in all of railroading.The railroad men, exhausted and short of equipment, must brave bitter cold and white-out conditions to rescue the survivors, in a raging blizzard, with the real danger of avalanches striking at any moment. More than five hundred lives hang in the balance...*****Here is the story of the unsung heroes of modern railroading - the Maintenance of Way - who keep the lines open under the worst conditions, and who uphold the time honored tradition that the trains will always get through.
Treasures of the Snow
Treasures of the Snow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treasures of the Snow write by Patricia St. John. This book was released on 2001-07-01. Treasures of the Snow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A story of vicious revenge and hard repentance Annette and Lucien are enemies. After Annette gets Lucien into trouble at school, he decides to get back at her by threatening the most precious thing in the world to her: her little brother Dani. But tragedy strikes. Annette is so filled with rage that she sets out to alienate and humiliate Lucien at every turn. As Lucien seeks to repent and restore, light floods both of their dark hearts and Christ proves that He makes all things new.
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party
The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party write by Marian Calabro. This book was released on 1999. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47.
