Portrays births weddings and deaths on the trail and the strategies of menand women desperately trying to survive in the adventure of their lives. Thisbook incl... » 

Portrays births weddings and deaths on the trail and the strategies of menand women desperately trying to survive in the adventure of their lives. Thisbook includes an account of the Donner tragedy and of the kaleidoscopic life inCalifornia immediately following the American conquest. «