The Indifferent Stars Above
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The Indifferent Stars Above The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel Brown2009
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. 20,000 first printing.
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