The Resource The Donner Party
The Donner Party
Resource Information
The item The Donner Party represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The Donner Party represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's "Promised Land." But an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of them victims of madness, death, and cannibalism. The program re-creates the Donner Party's journey from family journals, newspaper accounts, and interviews with historians and descendants
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 90 min.))
- Label
- The Donner Party
- Title
- The Donner Party
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Trapped in the Sierra Nevadas during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's "Promised Land." But an untried shortcut became a death warrant for half of them victims of madness, death, and cannibalism. The program re-creates the Donner Party's journey from family journals, newspaper accounts, and interviews with historians and descendants
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- American experience (Television program)
- Intended audience
- Rated TVG
- PerformerNote
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- Host/narrator, David McCullough
- Voices: J.D. Cannon, Timothy Hutton, Gene Jones, Amy Madigan, Donal McCann
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1922-2005
- 1960-
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Burns, Ric
- McCullough, David G
- Cannon, J. D.
- Hutton, Timothy
- Jones, Gene
- hoopla digital
- Runtime
- 90
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Donner Party
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- The Donner Party
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
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- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- other
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 90 min.))
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- sd., col.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 10084503
- Publisher number
- MWT10084503
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT10084503
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- The Donner Party
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- other
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 90 min.))
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- sd., col.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 10084503
- Publisher number
- MWT10084503
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT10084503
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
Library Locations
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Evanston Public Library Chicago AveBorrow it900 Chicago Ave., Suite 102, Evanston, IL, 60202, US42.034188 -87.679606
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Evanston Public Library MainBorrow it1703 Orrington Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60201, US42.048419 -87.680008
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Evanston Public Library North BranchBorrow it2026 Central Street, Evanston, IL, 60201, US42.064193 -87.702066
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