Ordeal By Hunger Author:George R Stewart The hazardous journey of the Donner wagon train is one of the most amazing sagas of endurance to come out of the American West. In 1846, eighty-seven hardy pioneers set out overland to California along a new route. The desert killed their oxen and drove many of the settlers almost mad from thirst. The Sierras trapped them in bitter snows and sto... more »rms. But their greatest ordeal was yet to come...« less