The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride
Title:
The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride
Author:
Brown, Daniel, 1951-
ISBN:
9780061348112
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2010.
Physical Description:
xiv, 337, 18 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published: W. Morrow, 2009.
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.
Abstract:
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.
