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From November 20, 1846 to March 1, 1847, Irish immigrant Patrick Breen, a Donner party member, kept a diary of his ordeal in the mountains.
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From November 20, 1846 to March 1, 1847, Irish immigrant Patrick Breen, a Donner party member, kept a diary of his ordeal in the mountains. Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and...
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The Diary of Patrick Breen: Document Analysis . Word Frequency: Which words are used most frequently in these diary excerpts and why are they so important to understanding the diary? Choose three frequently used words to complete the following.
In 1946, The Book Club of California published The Diary of Patrick Breen, edited by George R. Stewart, which includes both a complete transcription and a facsimile reproduction of the diary. The diary was made from 8 sheets of note paper which were folded and trimmed to make a 32-page booklet.
Mar 1, 2017 · Patrick Breen began recording in his diary on November 20, 1846. “It continueing [SIC] to snow all the time we were here we now have killed most part of our cattle having to stay here untill [SIC] next spring & live on poor beef without bread or salt,” wrote Breen.
Breen was naturalized in 1844. In the Spring of 1846, the Breen family joined a party of emigres bound for California. The party's ill-fated journey across the Sierra Nevada Mountains was partially documented in the diary Breen kept while stranded in a mountain camp at Donner (t...
Jan 31, 2006 · Irish immigrant Patrick Breen kept the following diary of the Donner Party's captivity in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, the only surviving day-by-day record of events at the camps.
