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

By Kenneth L. Holmes

Book information

Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781496225542, 1496225546
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1375407 bytes)
Volume
1
Pages
280\0
Time added
2022-09-24 14:51:54

Description

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.

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