Across the Plains Sarah Royce's Western Narrative

Name: Across the Plains Sarah Royce's Western Narrative
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ISBN: 9780816527267

ISBN-10: 0816527261

ISBN-13: 9780816527267

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Sarah Royce, Jennifer Dawes

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On April 30, 1849, Sarah Bayliss Royce, along with her husband, Josiah, and their daughter, Mary, left her home in Tipton, Iowa, and headed for California in a covered wagon. Along the way, she kept a diary which, nearly thirty years later, served as the basis for a memoir she titled Across the Plains. That book has been freshly transcribed by Jennifer Dawes Adkison from Royce’s original handwritten document, and this new edition is faithful to the original, restoring several passages that were omitted from the previous edition. In a new introduction Adkison reveals Across the Plains to be far more than a simple narrative of one pioneer woman’s journey west. She explains that Royce wrote…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 6/7/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Authorship, Authenticity and the Gold Rush West


Across the Plains


Appendix: A Sarah Royce Timeline


Notes


Bibliography


Index