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Title: An Uninspired, Text-Book Read
Review: I have to strongly disagree with the previous Amazon reviews praising this book. If you are looking for an in-depth telling of the Donner Party story rich with anecdotes and emotion, this is not the book for you. I made the mistake of assuming that the chronological format of this book would give the author an interesting opportunity to share details from specific days of the party's journey. Instead, every chapter is a wash, not nearly using the referenced primary sources to their fullest, most revealing and telling potential. The book is formatted much like a middle-school text book and reads like one, too. The writing is poor, bare-bones, repetitive and elementary. However, if you're looking for a coffee-table book that guests can simply open and say, "Oh, you have a book on the Donner Party", get this book; that is all it is good for.
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