Tells the story of the ill-fated party of pioneers and their doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival, the Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "Manifest Destiny".
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ISBN:1415702330 (v.r.)
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher:Hollywood, CA :Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,c2004.
General Note:
Program content : WGBH Educational Foundation/Public Broadcasting Service, c2000.
Originally shown on the PBS series The American experience on October 28, 1992.
Standard format.
Participant or Performer Note:
Narrator, David McCullough ; featuring the voices of: J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Gene Jones, Amy Madigan, Donal McCann, George Plimpton, Paul Roebling, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen & Eli Wallach.