The Indifferent Stars Above (24 page)

Sarah Graves, undated photograph.
Courtesy of Kathy Larson

Mary Ann Graves, circa 1879.
Courtesy of California State Parks, Sutter's Fort State Historic Park Archives

Eleanor Graves, undated photograph.
Courtesy of Marilyn Sherwood Kramer, great-granddaughter of Lovina Graves

Nancy Graves, circa 1853.
Courtesy of Marilyn Sherwood Kramer, great-granddaughter of Lovina Graves

Lovina Graves, circa 1850.
Courtesy of Marilyn Sherwood Kramer, great-granddaughter of Lovina Graves

William Eddy, undated photograph.
Courtesy of California State Parks, Sutter's Fort State Historic Park Archives

Charles Stanton, 1844.
Courtesy of California State Parks, Sutter's Fort State Historic Park Archives

Louis Keseberg, circa 1879.
Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

James and Margret Reed, undated photograph.
Courtesy of California State Parks, Sutter's Fort State Historic Park Archives

Chimney Rock, in Nebraska, stands 325 feet from the base to the tip of the spire
.

Scotts Bluff, Nebraska; an emigrant wagon much like the one the Fosdicks drove.

Wagon ruts west of Fort Laramie in Wyoming, etched in the stone by Sarah Graves Fosdick and thousands who followed her.

Looking east over the Wasatch Mountains. On Lansford Hastings's and James Reed's recommendation, the Donner Party fought their way through this section of the Wasatch to reach the Great Salt Lake Valley.