The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Free Audiobook Download by Daniel James Brown

The Indifferent Stars Above is the harrowing true story of the Donner Party, a group of emigrants who set out to make the perilous journey through the Rocky Mountains in 1846. They became trapped in the snow and resorted to cannibalism. The toll on human life was high, with more than half of their number perishing before they reached safety more than a month later.

"The Lesson of the Donner Party" is a story of hope. It is about how the will to survive can overcome even the most overwhelming odds, if only for a short time.

A woman named Elizabeth rescues a child from a snowstorm that has killed everyone else in the wagon train she's been on. The child is called "Nee-Naw," meaning new one or new life. He is sickly and malnourished, but eventually he gets better and joins the wagon train. They are used to be called the Donner family, but they don't look anything like the others. There is strange behavior where some people die in snowstorms without any visible injuries, followed by others inexplicably dying of hunger when there is food available. Eventually they can't keep up with their supplies and end up going hungry for months instead of days. They kill a mountain lion for food, then a bear, then two

Told in Daniel James Brown's own words, this book tells the story of a group of travelers who headed westward across the United States in 1846 only to find themselves caught up in an unforgiving winter. As they struggled to keep the people alive, their numbers dwindled and the death toll mounted.

The Donner Party is a story about one of the deadliest tragedies in American history. The party was over the Sierra Nevada Mountains when a wise person realized the people had no chance of surviving. They made their way to California, but not before six of those trapped perished from starvation, cold, and altitude sickness. While the Donner Party has been dramatized many times, this book does an excellent job at bringing it to life through its detailed historical and factual notes.

The Donner Party was a group of pioneers who were set out on an arduous and unimaginable journey across the United States. The trip was supposed to take three months, but it took nine due to blizzard conditions. The Donner Party became trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountain and had to stay there for several weeks. They ate what they could find, ate dog meat and resorted to cannibalism when necessary. Eventually, they ran out of food and resorted to eating each other's corpses when they died of starvation.