Outlasting the trail : the story of a woman's journey west / Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer, author.

Contributor:

Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, donor.

Reneson, Lisa, designer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Powers, Mary Rockwood, -1858--Fiction.

Powers, Mary Rockwood.

Overland journeys to the Pacific--Fiction.

Overland journeys to the Pacific.

Oregon National Historic Trail--Fiction.

Oregon National Historic Trail.

Women pioneers--Fiction.

Women pioneers.

Wagon trains--Fiction.

Wagon trains.

California--Fiction.

California.

Powers, Mary Rockwood, -1858.

United States--Oregon National Historic Trail.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

Western stories.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7547)

Physical Description:

xii, 300 pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

©2005

Place of Publication:

Guilford, Conn. : Two Dot, [2005]

Summary:

"Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes. Trading in her home for canvas roof and wheels, Mary, her husband, and their three children set out on the arduous trek westward to California. When Dr. Powers' increasingly unstable mental state threatens the family's safety, Mary is forced to leave her ideals of femininity behind. She [becomes] head of the household to help her family outlast the trail...[A]uthor Mary Barmeyer O'Briend uses Mary Rockwood Powers' letters as a starting point to further illuminate this remarkable woman's story."--back cover.

Notes:

First edition, second printing.

Text design by Lisa Reneson

Local Notes:

Schimmel 7547: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

076273065X

9780762730650

OCLC:

57682391