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ocn978252186 |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20180722224429.0 |
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170317s2017 nyuabf b 001 0deng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2017012937 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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DLC |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCQ |
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OCLCF |
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DWP |
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PCX |
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BUR |
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YDX |
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TXDRI |
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FM0 |
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OCLCO |
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NFG |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780871407696 |
| Qualifying information |
hardcover |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0871407698 |
| Qualifying information |
hardcover |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)978252186 |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
n-us-ca |
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n-usp-- |
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n-us-nv |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
978.02 |
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W214 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wallis, Michael, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1945- |
| Relator term |
author. |
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14823 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The best land under heaven : |
| Remainder of title |
the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Michael Wallis. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2017] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xx, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
| Content Type Code |
txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media Type Term |
unmediated |
| Media Type Code |
n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: 1846 -- Prologue: Donner Lake, June 6, 1918 -- Call of the West -- A migrating people -- The best land under heaven -- Gray gold -- Snake heads -- California dreaming -- The bold plunge -- Wagons ho! April 1846 -- Farewell, April 14-15, 1846 -- Independence bound, April 15-May 10, 1846 -- The journey -- Queen city of the trails, May 10-12, 1846 -- Indian country, May 12-18, 1846 -- Soldier Creek, May 19, 1846 -- The others, May 20, 1846 -- People of the south wind, May 21-24, 1846 -- Alcove Spring, May 25-29, 1846 -- The rhetoric of fear, May 30-June 2, 1846 -- Ebb and flow, June 3-7, 1846 -- On the Platte, June 8-10, 1846 -- Life goes on, June 10-15, 1846 -- A letter from Tamzene Donner, June 16, 1846 -- The promised land -- Change of command, June 16-19, 1846 -- Chasing mirages, June 19-25, 1846 -- Sage advice, June 26-27, 1846 -- A sense of urgency, June 28-July 12, 1846 -- Parting of the ways, July 13-19, 1846 -- The Donner party, July 20-28, 1846 -- Betrayed, July 28-31, 1846 -- The Hastings cutoff, August 1-22, 1846 -- The fearful long drive, August 23-September 10, 1846 -- Race against time, September 11-October 4, 1846 -- Blood rage, October 5-20, 1846 -- Perseverance, October 21-30, 1846 -- Out of time -- Snowbound, November 1846 -- Desperate times, desperate measures, November-December 1846 -- The forlorn hope, December 1846 -- Camp of death, December 1846 -- The starving time, January 1847 -- In dire straits, January-February 1847 -- Man on a mission, January-February 1847 -- To the rescue, February 1847 -- The first relief -- The second relief -- The third relief -- The fourth relief -- Aftermath. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
An account of the 1846 Donner-Reed expedition reveals the true events surrounding the tragedy, profiling the adventurous characters who shaped the group and how various interpersonal factors led to their harrowing experiences. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in eagerly pursuing what would a century later become known as the "American dream," this optimistic-yet-motley crew of emigrants was met with a chilling nightmare; in the following months, their jingoistic excitement would be replaced by desperate cries for help that would fall silent in the deadly snow-covered mountains of the Sierra Nevada. We know these early pioneers as the Donner Party, a name that has elicited horror since the late 1840s. Now, celebrated historian Michael Wallis--beloved for his myth-busting portraits of legendary American figures--continues his life's work of parsing fact from fiction to tell the true story of one of the most embroidered sagas in Western history..."--Jacket. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Donner Party. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
111778 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Pioneers |
| Geographic subdivision |
California |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
134970 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Pioneers |
| Geographic subdivision |
West (U.S.) |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
330903 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Overland journeys to the Pacific. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
20938 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Frontier and pioneer life |
| Geographic subdivision |
West (U.S.) |
| 9 (RLIN) |
21993 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
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134972 |
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