Can I read The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride on EtoBox?

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride about?

In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so days before the planned departure she married the young man with the violin, and the two of them threw their lot in with the rest of Sarah's family. On April 12, they rolled out of the yard of their homestead in three ox-drawn wagons.Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, Sarah and her family arrived at Truckee Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. After a series of desperate attempts to cross the mountains, the party improvised cabins and slaughtered what remained of their emaciated livestock. By early December they were beginning to starve.Sarah's father, a Vermonter, was the only member of the party familiar with snowshoes. Under his instruction, fifteen sets of snowshoes were hastily constructed from oxbows and rawhide, and on December 15, Sarah and fourteen other relatively youn

Who reads The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride?

Author

Daniel James Brown

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061877261

Category

history

Subjects

History, Travel, Biography

Rating

4.06 / 5 (2,974 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14