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04486aam a2200637 i 4500 001 73F9A110840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170809t20182018utuab bs 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017037702 020 $a 1607816016 020 $a 9781607816010 035 $a (OCoLC)1002419107 040 $a CoU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c COD $d DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d INU $d PAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a F593 $b .G74 2018 082 00 $a 978/.02 $2 23 100 1 $a Grayson, Donald K., $e author. 245 10 $a Sex and death on the western emigrant trail : $b the biology of three American tragedies / $c Donald K. Grayson. 246 14 $a Sex & death on the western emigrant trail 264 1 $a Salt Lake City : $b The University of Utah Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xv, 246 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index. 505 0 $a An introduction to sex, death, and disaster -- "A great lamentation about the cold" : a brief history of the Donner Party disaster -- Predictions of death -- "A curious feature of the disaster" -- "The heavens weep" : the Willie Handcart Company -- "Cruel beyond language" : the Martin Handcart Company -- Gendered death? 520 $a "During the winter of 1846-1847, members of the Donner Party found themselves stuck in the snows of the Sierra Nevada on their journey to California, losing many in their group to severe cold and starvation. Those who survived did so by cannibalizing their dead comrades. Today the Donner Party may be the most famous group of American overland emigrants to struggle through life-threatening conditions, but it is not the only one. Ten years after the Donner Party got itself into trouble, two groups sponsored by the Mormon Church ran into similar difficulties. Unlike the Donner Party, these people were following a well-traveled path, but they were doing it in a novel way, pushing and pulling their goods and children in handcarts some 1,300 miles from Iowa to Utah. In the end, over 200 died along the trail. The plights of these travelers have been addressed by different historians in different ways. This book is the first to examine these tragedies in terms of biology. Grayson shows that who lived and who died within these westward-bound groups can largely be explained by age, sex, and family ties. His investigation reveals what happens when our cultural mechanisms for dealing with famine and extreme cold are reduced to only what our very bodies can provide. These were real people in real danger. Understanding what happened to them helps us get at the core of who and what we all are"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a James G. Willie Emigrating Company. 610 20 $a Edward Martin Emigrating Company. 610 27 $a Edward Martin Emigrating Company. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00735593 610 27 $a James G. Willie Emigrating Company. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00735592 650 0 $a Overland journeys to the Pacific. 650 0 $a Donner Party. 650 0 $a Biometry. 650 0 $a Mortality $x Sex differences. 650 0 $a Mortality $v Statistics. 650 0 $a Disaster victims $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Mormon pioneers $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Mormon handcart companies. 650 7 $a Biometry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00832611 650 7 $a Disaster victims. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894774 650 7 $a Donner Party. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00896860 650 7 $a Mormon handcart companies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026290 650 7 $a Mormon pioneers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026296 650 7 $a Mortality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026502 650 7 $a Mortality $x Sex differences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026523 650 7 $a Overland journeys to the Pacific. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01049347 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a United States, West. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243255 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Statistics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423727 776 08 $i Online version: $a Grayson, Donald K. $t Sex and death on the western emigrant trail. $d Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2017] $z 9781607816027 $w (DLC) 2017041871 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219013344.0 952 $l JMPC081 $d 20210625010244.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=73F9A110840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search