Covered Wagon Women Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

Name: Covered Wagon Women Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
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ISBN: 9780803272774

ISBN-10: 0803272774

ISBN-13: 9780803272774

Edition: 1995

Authors: Kenneth L. Holmes, Anne M. Butler, Kenneth Holmes

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The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Anne M. Butler is Trustee Professor Emerita at Utah State University and past editor of the Western Historical Quarterly.



Introduction to the Bison Books Edition


Introduction to Volume XI


The Diaries, Letters, and Commentaries


Introduction


Iowa to Kansas, 1879


Kansas Caravan, 1881


Introduction


Introduction


From Missouri to the Harney Valley, 1885


Kansas to Oregon by Road and Rail


Introduction


An Oregon Journey, 1903


Introduction


Bibliography to the Series and Index


Bibliography for the Series


Index