The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

by Daniel James Brown

And above all they were fiercely self-reliant, unflinchingly independent. In the trying weeks and savage months ahead, though, they would find that one man’s freedoms could become another man’s fetters.

This book is full of lines that make me go “woahhhh dude” and this is one of them