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The indifferent stars above [electronic resource] : the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride / Daniel James Brown.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061877247
- ISBN: 0061877247
- ISBN: 9780061877254
- ISBN: 0061877255
- ISBN: 9780061877278
- ISBN: 0061877271
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: Pymble, NSW ; HarperCollins ebooks, 2009.
Content descriptions
| 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. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Biography. History. |
