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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor), Anne M. Butler (Introduction by)Series:Covered Wagon Women #1Publish date:1995-09-01Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803272774ISBN-10:803272774UPC:9780803272774Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Women's StudiesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:7.99 x 5.38 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC8TPM1B8K
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803272774ISBN-10:803272774UPC:9780803272774Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Women's StudiesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:7.99 x 5.38 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC8TPM1B8K
Kenneth L. Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College. He edited and compiled Covered Wagon Women, drawing on archives and private sources. Anne M. Butler, a professor of history at Utah State University-Logan, is the author of Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West.
Publisher: Bison Books

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