02173cam a2200361 i 4500 396382010 TxAuBib 20191029120000.0 190713s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781643583587 hardcover $36.95 1643583581 hardcover $36.95 (OCoLC)1108330595 TxAuBib rda Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946- One more river to cross [text (large print)] / Jane Kirkpatrick. Center Point large print edition. Thordike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, [2019] ℗2019. 477 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844. 1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land. When a heavy snowstorm hits in October, the party separates in three directions. Now young Mary Sullivan, newlywed Sarah Montgomery, widowed Ellen Murphy, and her pregnant sister-in-law Maolisa each risks losing those they loved. Two women and four men go overland around Lake Tahoe, three men stay to guard the heaviest wagons-- and eight women and seventeen children, huddled in a cabin at the headwaters of the Yuba River. Waiting for rescue ... or death. -- adapted from back cover. 20191029. Survival Fiction. Wagon trains Fiction. Overland journeys to the Pacific. Fiction. Historical fiction. Large type books. Christian fiction.