Covered wagon women. Volume 2, Diaries and letters from the Western Trails 1850 / edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes ; introduction by Lillian Schlissel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmes, Kenneth L., editor.

Schlissel, Lillian, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women pioneers--Oregon National Historic Trail--History.

Women pioneers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 302 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496225566

1496225562