Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Brown, Daniel James, 1951-

Title The indifferent stars above : the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride / Daniel James Brown.

Publication Info. New York : William Morrow, [2009]
©2009

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  978.02 BROWN    DUE 03-12-24 Billed
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  978.02 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  978.02 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO FOSDICK    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  978.02 BRO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.02 BRO    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  978.02 BROWN    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  979.4 BRO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  978.0209 BROWN    DUE 04-20-24
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-FOSDICK, S.    On Holdshelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-337).
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
Subject Fosdick, Sarah Graves, 1825-1871.
Donner Party.
Women pioneers -- California -- Biography.
Brides -- California -- Biography.
Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Frontier and pioneer life -- California.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.
Brown, Daniel James, 1951- -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
ISBN 9780061348105
0061348104
-->
Add a Review