Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails

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Covered wagon women : diaries & letters from the western trails

edited & compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes

University of Nebraska Press, [1995], c1983-<[1999], c1989 >

  • v. 1 : alk. paper
  • v. 2 : alk. paper
  • v. 3 : alk. paper
  • v. 4 : alk. paper
  • v. 5 : alk. paper
  • v. 6 : alk. paper
  • v. 7 : alk. paper
  • v. 8 : alk. paper

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Vol. 5 edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes and David C. Duniway

Originally published in 11 vols.: Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Co., 1983-1993

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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  • v. 1. 1840-1849 / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Anne M. Butler
  • v. 2. 1850 /introduction to the Bison Books edition by Lillian Schlissel
  • v. 3. 1851 / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Susan Armitage
  • v. 4. 1852, The California Trail / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Glenda Riley
  • v. 5. 1852, The Oregon Trail / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Ruth B. Moynihan
  • v. 6. 1853-1854 / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
  • v. 7. 1854-1860 / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Shirley A. Leckie
  • v. 8. 1862-1865 / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Maria E. Montoya

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v. 2 : alk. paper ISBN 9780803272743

内容説明

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.
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v. 3 : alk. paper ISBN 9780803272873

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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. The words of these pioneer women convey their exhilaration, courage, exhaustion, and terror in traveling so far into the unknown.
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v. 4 : alk. paper ISBN 9780803272910

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In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the rigors en route, trailside celebrations and tragedies, the scourge of cholera, and encounters with the Indians.
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v. 5 : alk. paper ISBN 9780803272941

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Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to climb Independence Rock. She meets her future husband, Benjamin Duniway, at the end of the Oregon Trail and, in the years to come, finds fame as a writer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the Northwest. Her grandson, David Duniway, edited her trail diary for Covered Wagon Women. This volume includes the equally vivid diaries of other women who rode the wagons in 1852. Polly Coon of Wisconsin recalls trading with the Indians. Martha Read, starting from Illinois, is particularly alert to the suffering of the animals, noting hundreds of dead cows and horses along the way. Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank, twin sisters from Illinois, jointly chronicle their once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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v. 6 : alk. paper ISBN 9780803272958

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"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minimalist record cuts deep, and Eliza Butler Ground and Margaret Butler Smith, sisters who wrote revealing letters after arriving. Going to California in 1854 were Elizabeth Myrick, who wrote a no-nonsense diary, and the teenage Mary Burrell, whose wit and exuberance prevail.
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v. 8 : alk. paper ISBN 9780803272972

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The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to obtain grain for their livestock and food for themselves. They also sped up the process of mail delivery to remote Western outposts. Tragically, the easing of overland travel coincided with renewed conflicts with the Cheyenne and other Plains Indians. The massacre of Black Kettle's people at Sand Creek instigated two years of bloody reprisals and counterreprisals. "Amid this turmoil and change, these daring women continued to build on the example set by earlier women pioneers. As Harriet Loughary wrote upon her arrival in California, "[after] two thousands of miles in an ox team, making an average of eighteen miles a day enduring privations and dangers . . . When we think of the earliest pioneers . . . we feel an untold gratitude towards them."

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