Covered Wagon Women 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1851 (Covered Wagon Women Vol. 3)
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803272871 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 291 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College. He edited and compiled Covered Wagon Women, drawing on archives and private sources.. Kenneth L
The words of these pioneer women convey their exhilaration, courage, exhaustion, and terror in traveling so far into the unknown.. The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west—about 2,160 men and 1,440 women—tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal land law that awarded a husband and wife a full section. Volume 3 of Covered Wagon Women contains the diaries and letters of six Oregon-bound women, as well as the journal of an English Mormon woman who described her experience all the way from Liverpool to Salt Lake City
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Five Stars mary schwenke great book. Amazon Customer said Covered Wagon Women. We appreciate the research that's gone into documenting the history of my great-great-grandmother. Her diary has been published many times, but here there is more information to add to the total picture. What a brave, great woman she was!. "Honorable, virtuous" according to William J. Higgins,III. More heartfelt, lively accounts from the Oregon Trail during the year 1851.Harriet Talcott Buckingham's diary is both poetic and colorful, describing prairies, mountain passes, river crossings, flora, Indians and other travelers met along the way.Amelia Hadley's writing style is very sincere. She not only visually describes streams, buffalo, landforms and Indians, but along with counting th