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I've read several accounts, but never one as interesting and thorough as this. So unflinching in detail that I could only read a few pages at a time during their ordeal. Repeatedly when you think it can't possibly get any worse, it does. It makes me wonder how soft we've gotten and how long I'd last in similar conditions. Finally, all who can be rescued are brought out of the mountains in three or four waves of brave relief teams, but their stories don't end there. I especially enjoyed learning the details of all their lives here in California and how the disaster affected them.


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The Indifferent Stars Above The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride Daniel James Brown 9780061348105 Books Reviews

I gave this title three stars because it seemed well researched and informative, but didn't really capture me like I was hoping it would. I found the first 1/3 of the book difficult to get through because it got rather dull and a bit repetitive in some parts. The author did put a lot of effort into descriptions of places and scenery to give the reader a picture in the mind's eye of the setting, which I found to actually be a bit overdone to be honest. The exhaustive scenery descriptions had me skimming the paragraphs searching for the place where it got back to business. All in all I'm glad I stuck it out and read the whole thing, but I would suggest to those contemplating buying this to borrow it from the library instead. It's not the kind of book you read a second or third time, so in my opinion not really worth paying full price for.
An amazing tale of hope, strength, family, friends and then unimaginable hardships they endured through the eyes of a young newlyweds giving their entire soles to that end. Historical. fiction that was written in such a way to allow you to consider the psychological stresses these hardy American frontiersmen and women endured at the chance to work hard to provide a better future for each other on the other side of the country. The reality of those times and their journey make clear their strengths, fears, and unimaginable hardships involved in this undertaking. Bad advice was as common and useless then as it is now but to this group of travelers, it was a deadly encounter with charlatan that pointed them in the direction of their own eventual doom.
Great book, heartwarming, detailed story telling and proves that women in those days were tough and hardy pioneers.
I’ll never forget this story...it’s just too heartbreaking and also hopeful not leave behind in my thoughts
I simply cannot say enough about this writer! As soon as I start reading I am immediately hooked! His writing style and skill just bring the people and the circumstances alive! This is such a moving story about a family(s) who essentially give up their homes to go to CA (which isn't even a state at the time of these events). Imagining the hardships they suffered cannot even be put into words but Daniel Brown puts you there - in that moment with each of the individuals in this story. I am not a person who cries easily but I must say that after a certain horrific event in the story I simply put down my kindle and wept. Not a few tears....I wept. I loved at the end of the story how the author told you what became of the individuals who survived. There was some closure in knowing what became of these courageous people. My husband also read this story and we have built into an upcoming cross country trip plans to stop at Donner Lake based on reading this book. This story and book are remarkable!
I bought this book because everyone in my family read the author's The Boys in the Boat and loved it. I couldn't get into a story about a rowing team, though I may after reading this book. The Indifferent Stars Above is simply an amazing piece of nonfiction. I'm a California native and have known about the Donner Party forever. "Oh, yeah, those are the dopes who waited too long to cross the Sierras in winter. They got stuck in the snow and ended up eating each other to survive." But that isn't ALL that happened. They were betrayed by someone they trusted and took an untried road over the Sierras. This is an eye opener about what actually happened and how awful it was, as well as the actual characters/events of the settlement of CA, the golden state. Meticulously researched. Our forbearers, the ones with money and influence, weren't so hot. Read the book. you'll see. One of the things that I liked the best was that the author didn't just stop with the disaster, but followed the characters into their subsequent lives. That made the horror more palatable.
Twice I found this book hard to put down. When I finished it the first time, I started over again and read it all the way through again. I really liked the historical details that Brown gives such as the economic climate of the 1840s, the mores and customs of the time, what kinds of things the settlers were likely to have packed, etc. That means he stops the action of the story to provide such details, which might bother you if you want a quick action story, but I loved Brown's style. He begins his narrative before the settlers begin their journey and intersperses background information throughout their story of hardship. I liked learning such things as the political and economic context of the American western migration, getting a glimpse of nineteenth century family dynamics and hearing what modern climatologists say about the weather the Donner party endured. If you like historical context and details, this is your Donner party story.
I've read several accounts, but never one as interesting and thorough as this. So unflinching in detail that I could only read a few pages at a time during their ordeal. Repeatedly when you think it can't possibly get any worse, it does. It makes me wonder how soft we've gotten and how long I'd last in similar conditions. Finally, all who can be rescued are brought out of the mountains in three or four waves of brave relief teams, but their stories don't end there. I especially enjoyed learning the details of all their lives here in California and how the disaster affected them.