num_pages: 303
description: 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.
language: English
title: Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
titlecomplete: Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 35
series: Covered Wagon Women
publisher: Bison Books