Snow Mountain Passage (45 page)

James D. Houston is the author of
Continental Drift, Love Life,
and
The Last Paradise,
honored with a 1999 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Among his several nonfiction works is
Farewell to Manzanar,
coauthored with his wife, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, based upon her family’s experience during and after the World War II internment. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has received the Humanitas Prize, a Joseph Henry Jackson award for fiction, a PEN/Library of Congress Story Award, a California Book Award, an NEA writing grant, and a Rockefeller Foundation residency. He lives with his wife and three children in Santa Cruz, California, in the house where Patty Reed spent the last years of her life.

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First published in the USA in 2001
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First published in Australia in 2002
This edition published in 2010
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

James D. Houston
  Snow Mountain Passage/ James D. Houston
  ISBN: 978-0-7322-7356-9 (pbk.)
  ISBN: 978-0-7304-9352-5 (ePub)
  1. Donner Party – Fiction. 2. Overland journeys to the Pacific – Fiction.
  3. California – History – 1846–1850 – Fiction. I. Title. 813.54
813.54

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