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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride Books create a homestead dioramaIn 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