Stephanie Kemler’s Reviews > The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride > Status Update

Ghoulish. Grim. Gorgeous. Now THIS is how you write history. Just flawless set up, use of modern-day research (just how long can you *really* go without food?), delicious foreshadowing, perfect contextualizing, thorough attention to gender roles and the different ways women experienced the frontier… This book is almost enough to make me finally get that masters in history…