{"product_id":"hungry-the-inspiring-tale-of-three-donner-party-survivors","title":"Hungry: The Inspiring Tale of Three Donner Party Survivors","description":"A mesmerizing work, literarily impressive and historically exacting. -Kirkus\n\nIn 1847, the Donner party resorted to eating human flesh to survive entrapment at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They became infamous almost instantly, with hundreds of books, stories, and interviews exploring their misery. None them tell the extraordinary story from the first-person point of view of the female survivors.\n\nUntil now.\n\nThree women yearned to make better lives in California:\n\nNineteen-year-old Mary Ann Graves set out west with her family in search of a home that would be free of disease like the ague that had afflicted her mother and sisters for years. If she met a handsome guy along the way, well, she wouldn’t complain. As the belle of the Donner party, she certainly had plenty of interest.\n\nPeggy Breen had just given birth to her seventh child, but she wasn’t afraid of the two-thousand-mile journey toward prosperity. She’d take care of her children and honor her husband along the trail, because that’s what women of faith did. But when supplies became limited, her giving heart and her mother’s instinct were at odds.\n\nVirginia Blackstone Reed, the thirteen-year-old daughter of the group’s leader, set out in search of adventure, riding her sassy palomino pony alongside the largest double-decker wagon anyone had ever seen. As the adopted daughter of the most influential and prosperous man in the wagon train, she had no idea at the start that her polarizing father with his ostentatious wealth would pave the way for their future devastation.\n\nBy the time these women and the rest of the party reached the Sierra Nevada mountains after taking an unproven “shortcut,” they were already two months late. They had lost people, oxen, mules, and livestock they couldn’t survive without. Then the snow began to fall.\n\nAnd it didn’t stop.\n\nHungry follows the tenacious protagonists and their miraculous rescue as they fight the elements and one another, highlighting the strength that kept them going when most of us would have been defeated.\n\nKirkus Reviews said of Hungry, “The story’s historical verisimilitude is magisterial—the author’s research is simply impeccable. This is much more than a recitation of historical facts, though—Baker brings to terrifying life the cruel proximity of hope and barbarism, and the unspeakable things people will do to survive and to save their own. This is a stunning glimpse into a vanished time in American history when every obstacle seemed surmountable and progress assured, despite the awesome danger that lurked everywhere.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1949655865\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1949655865.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Baker, B. E.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51481889472799,"sku":"PKV.1949655865.G","price":4.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1949655865-0.jpg?v=1766337260","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/hungry-the-inspiring-tale-of-three-donner-party-survivors","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}