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The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of the Donner Party  Cover Image Book Book

The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of the Donner Party

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 0061348112
  • ISBN: 9780061348112
  • Physical Description: print
    xiv, 337, 18 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2010.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Originally published: W. Morrow, 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-337).
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Fosdick, Sarah Graves 1825-1871
Donner Party
Women pioneers California Biography
Brides California Biography
Pioneers California History 19th century
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Frontier and pioneer life California
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) History 19th century
Brown, Daniel 1951- Travel West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) Description and travel
Brown, Daniel James 1951-
Fosdick, Sarah Graves 1825-1871
Brides
Donner Party
Frontier and pioneer life
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Pioneers
Travel
Women pioneers
California
United States Sierra Nevada
United States, West
Genre: Biography.
History.

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