The indifferent stars above
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In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so days before the planned departure she married the young man with the violin, and the two of them threw their lot in with the rest of Sarah's family. On April 12, they rolled out of the yard of their homestead in three ox-drawn wagons.Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Do
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…Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, about the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. A lot of people were scammed into settling the high plains by railroad salesmanship and other "real estate" scams. - The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown. A book about the harrowing Donner Party. Scamming and scheming are what draw them out to that expedition. - The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. WW1 history but it boils down…
on “My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes” ↗If anyone’s interested, there is a great book on this story entitled, “The Indifferent Stars Above”.
on “Retracing a Donner Party path, nearly two centuries later” ↗