Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Holmes, Kenneth L.

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803272774)

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Holmes, Kenneth L.

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

$19.95
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Holmes, Kenneth L.

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

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
ISBN-10: 0803272774
ISBN-13: 9780803272774
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1995
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.38w x 0.59d
By Kenneth L. Holmes
By Kenneth L. Holmes
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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.

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