Description: Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850, Paperback by Holmes, Kenneth L. (EDT); Schlissel, Lillian (INT), ISBN 080327274X, ISBN-13 9780803272743, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1850
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Year: 1996
Topic: Women, United States / 19th Century, General
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Lillian Schlissel
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
