Full name: The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

Author: Daniel James Brown Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061348105 0061348104

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. In this gripping narrative, Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most infamous events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah's journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative. Similar books: Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley The Family Romanov by Candace Fleming The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore Six Wives by David Starkey The Greatest Knight by Thomas Asbridge Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig Henry VIII by Alison Weir Aristocrats by Stella Tillyard She-Wolves by Helen Castor Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley