The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride /
Daniel James Brown
- 1st ed.
- New York : William Morrow, c2009.
- xiv, 337 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
A sprightly boy and a romping girl -- The barren earth -- The meager by the meager were devoured -- In the reproof of chance -- Appendix: The Donner Party encampments.
A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils, in an account that also offers insight into the scientific reasons that some died while others survived.
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Fosdick, Sarah Graves 1825-1871 Brown, Daniel 1951- --Travel--West (U.S.)
Donner Party Women pioneers--California Brides--California Pioneers--History--California--19th century. Overland journeys to the Pacific Frontier and pioneer life--California
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--History--19th century West (U.S.)--Description and travel