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Trail of thread : a woman's westward journey / Linda K. Hubalek.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2351
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hubalek, Linda K.
- Series:
- Hubalek, Linda K. Trail of thread series
- Trail of thread series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--Fiction.
- Women pioneers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Western stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lindsborg, Kan. : Butterfield Books, [1995]
- Summary:
- Tells what life was like on the frontier trail through a series of imagined letters written by Deborah Pieratt, a woman who traveled from Kentucky to Kansas in 1854, taking care of her family of six young children and protecting them from the perils of the road.
- Notes:
- On cover: Historical letters, 1854-1855.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-109).
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 1886652066
- 9781886652064
- OCLC:
- 33601003
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