Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Publisher: Schocken; Schocken Books
Published: July 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780805211764
Subjects: West (U.S.); Women's Studies - History; United States - 19th Century; History: American; History; History - U.S.; Women's Studies - General; Women; United States - 19th Century/Old West; History / United States / 19th Century; 19th century; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Sources
First sentence: The "New Country" to Americans in 1840 was the land of the Oregon and California Territories.
Description: Includes "writings of more than a hundred women" who experienced the "trip across the continent."

Revised edition includes material on "young girls ... between eight and sixteen for whom the monumental crossing was a lark."