Winter of Entrapment by Joseph A. King

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket: Fine. 1992, 1st Edition, 1st printing. Signed by great grandson of one of the survivors Donner Party.

During the winter of of 1846-47 over eighty men, women and children of the Donner Party wagon train were trapped in the snows of California's High Sierras. thiry-nine perished on the trail or in the mountain camps. Some survived by eating the dead. This book gives a thorough and readable account and corrects many misconceptions of previous writers.