Covered wagon women
Subtitle: diaries and letters from the Western trails
By: ed. and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes ; introd. by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Edition: Fac-sim. ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lincoln (Neb.); London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
ISBN-13: 9780803272774; 9780803272873; 9780803272910; 9780803272941; 9780803272958; 9780803272965; 9780803272972; 9780803272989; 9780803272996; 9780803273009
Subjects: Biographies; Pionnières; Vie des pionniers; Voyages par terre jusqu'au Pacifique
Description: V. 1. 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: Reprod. en fac-sim. de l'éd. de. Arthur H. Clark company, 1983.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1 : 1840-1849 ; vol. 2 : 1850 ; vol. 3 : 1851 ; vol. 4 : 1852 ; vol. 5 : 1852, the Oregon trail ; vol. 6 : 1853-1854 ; vol. 7 : 1854-1860 ; vol. 8 : 1862-1865 ; vol. 9 : 1864-1868 ; vol. 10 : 1875-1883 ; vol. 11 : 1879-1903.