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Book Review of The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

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


A different view from the many books printed on this ghastly story of American history. The evil underlaying of disception including down right lies to reroute this party into the nightmare of endurance, death and life choices these families and individuals lived and died through. A hard read when you put yourself there with these heroes while also a hard to put down book as you move through the extreme endurances. The thought of worn out shoes, ice and snow, rocks causing bleeding feet, lack of food and one coat worn with the belief they would reach California long before snow......