TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Daniel
TI  - The indifferent stars above: the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride 
SN  - 9780061348105
AV  - F868.N5 B83 2009
U1  - 978/.02092 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - William Morrow
KW  - Fosdick, Sarah Graves,
KW  - Brown, Daniel,
KW  - Donner Party
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - California
KW  - Biography
KW  - Brides
KW  - Pioneers
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Overland journeys to the Pacific
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-337); 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
N2  - 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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