Covered Wagon Women Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1850

Name: Covered Wagon Women Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1850
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ISBN: 9780803272743

ISBN-10: 080327274X

ISBN-13: 9780803272743

Edition: 1995

Authors: Kenneth L. Holmes, Lillian Schlissel, Kenneth Holmes, 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: 4/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.96" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction to the Bison Books Edition


Introduction to Volume IV


A Teenager's Letter from Sacramento Elizabeth Keegan


The: Letter of Elizabeth Keegan


Iowa to the "Land of Gold"Eliza Ann Mcauley


The: Record of Eliza Ann Mcauley


Kentucky to California By Carriage and a Feather Bed Francis Sawyer


The: Journal of Francis Sawyer


A Trip Across the Continent Mariett Foster Cummings


The: Journal Of Mariett Foster Cummings


Epilogue


The: Daily Notes Of Sarah Pratt


The: Daily Notes of Sarah Pratt, 1852


Letters on the Way to California Lucy Rutledge Cooke


The: Letters of Lucy R. Cooke


Index