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Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of our most dramatic pioneer story--the ordeal of the Donner Party. Through the eyes of James Frazier Reed, one of the group's leaders, and the imagined "Trail Notes" of his daughter Patty, we journey along with the ill-fated... read more

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THEY HAVE BEEN following the sandy borders of the Platte through level country that changes little from day to day, an undulating sea of grasses broken here and there by clumps of trees along the river.

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PART ONE - CROSSING
Somewhere in Nebraska JUNE 1846
Lover, Husband, Father, Son
Somewhere in Nevada OCTOBER 1846
Wounds
Law and Order
God’s Doing
from The Trail Notes of Patty Reed Santa Cruz, California October 1920
Floating Pictures
His Dream
His Heart’s Desire
Another Man with a Secret
Patriotism
from The Trail Notes of Patty Reed Santa Cruz, California November 1920 In the High Country

PART TWO - ORCHARDS
A Ray of Hope
Voices
Wild Horses
Valentine
Out of the Wilderness
The Sight of His Flag
He Doesn’t Want to Think
from The Trail Notes of Patty Reed Santa Cruz, California December 1920
Somewhere in California DECEMBER 1846
A Call to Arms
Strangers
Consuela
A Common Enemy
The Mustard Thicket
Spoils of War
from The Trail Notes of Patty Reed Santa Cruz, January 1921

PART THREE - ANGELS
Yerba Buena
Kinship
In the North Wind
Homeward Bound
Three Fathers
A Web-footed Caravan
What Eddy Heard
from The Trail Notes of Patty Reed March 1921
Springtime 1847
from The Trail Notes of Patty Reed One More Entry

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  1. James D. Houston (Author)

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