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Format:
Book
Title:
The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride
ISBN:
9780061348105

9780061348112
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : William Morrow, [2009]
Physical Description:
xiv, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
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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