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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
Häftad, 1996
261 kr
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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 …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
Häftad, 1995
232 kr
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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 …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
Häftad, 1996
217 kr
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The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west—about 2,160 men and 1,440 women—tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal land law …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: the California Trail
Häftad, 1997
217 kr
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In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the rigors en route, trailside celebrations and …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: the Oregon Trail
Av Kenneth L. Holmes, David C. Duniway
Häftad, 1997
217 kr
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Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to climb Independence Rock. She meets her …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 6
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1853-1854
Häftad, 1998
217 kr
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"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860
Häftad, 1998
217 kr
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Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the “freedom costume” called bloomers. In 1858 Holmes joined the Pikes Peak gold rush and was the first woman of record …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865
Av Maria Montoya, Kenneth L. Holmes
Häftad, 1999
217 kr
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The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to obtain grain for their livestock and food for themselves. They also sped up the process of mail …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 9
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1864-1868
Häftad, 1999
202 kr
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In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a valey in the mountains." A day later she observed that one of the men in the overland expedition had "buried an infant here yesterday—still born." One can …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 10
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883
Häftad, 2000
218 kr
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Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, "the excitement continues." Economic hard times in Minnesota sent Allen and her husband to Montana in hopes of evading the droughts, grasshoppers, and failed crops that had plagued their farm. …
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903
Häftad, 2000
218 kr
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The stories seem simple—they left, they traveled, they settled—yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging …
Best of Covered Wagon Women
Häftad, 2008
225 kr
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The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray …
Best of Covered Wagon Women
Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails
Av K. L. Holmes, Kenneth L. Holmes
Häftad, 2010
218 kr
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The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between …
Keep Your Eye on the Prize
A Story of Determination, Diligence, and Perseverance
Inbunden, 2021
336 kr
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