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Days on the road : crossing the plains in 1865.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herndon, Sarah Raymond, 1840-1914.
- Series:
- North American women's letters and diaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 270 p. : front. (port.) ; 19 cm.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Burr printing house, 1902.
- Summary:
- Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 is Sarah Raymond Herndon's famous journal of her family's heartbreaking but inspiring trek across the Great Plains towards the Rocky Mountains in a wagon-train as the US Civil War is coming to an end. 24-year old Herndon's colorful travelogue, written on the trail, is both an important historical document and a suspenseful, absorbing read.
- OCLC:
- 593566312
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