Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #3): A Pioneer Tale (Volume 3)

ISBN: 1419708562

Author: Hale, Nathan

Condition: Used

In author-illustrator Nathan Hales Donner Dinner Party, discover the shocking and true story of the ill-fated expedition in this Hazardous Tale from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series.These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history. -New York TimesIn the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey toward a new life in California. To save time, they took an ill-advised shortcut-with disastrous consequences. Their story would not take them to California but into history.Bad weather, bad choices, and just plain bad luck forced the pioneers to spend a long, cold winter in the mountains, slowly starving. What they did to stay alive and the lengths that others went to in order to rescue them make this one of the most tragic and infamous stories of the American frontier.Nathan Hales Hazardous Tales take young readers into American history with graphic novels that bring the dangerous, bloody, exciting history of America to life. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War, World War I and World War II, the Donner Party, the Marquis de Lafayette, Harriet Tubman, the Alamo, and more all come to life in a way that will excite young readers of history.Nathan Hales Hazardous Tales! Read them all-if you dare!One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (#1)Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (#2)Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (#3)Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (#4)The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (#5)Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (#6)Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (#7)Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (#8)Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (#9)Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (#10)Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (#11)Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale (#12)