"In 'Snow Mountain Passage,' a reimagining of our most dramatic pioneer story, James Houston tells the tragic tale of the Donner Party through the eyes of James Frazier Reed and his daughter Patty. In moving, riveting prose, we follow this ill-fated group determined, at all costs, to make it to the promised land -- the California territory. A proud and devoted husband and father, Reed and his family travel in the 'Palace Car,' an enormous -- and ultimately...