Where wagons could go
Subtitle: Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding
By: introductions and editorial notes by Clifford Merrill Drury ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Julie Roy Jeffrey.
Contributors: Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851.; Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-
Edition: Bison Books ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lincoln, Neb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847; Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851; Women pioneers -- Northwestern States -- Diaries; Women pioneers -- Northwestern States -- Correspondence; Women missionaries -- Northwestern States -- Diaries; Women missionaries -- Northwestern States -- Correspondence; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Missions -- Oregon; Indians of North America -- Missions -- Oregon; Oregon -- History -- To 1859
Genres: Diaries.; Correspondence.
Other titles: First white women over the Rockies. Volume 1.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [17]-19).
Consists mainly of diaries, letters, and biographical sketches of Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding; with contributions by Mary Augusta Dix Gray and Sarah Gilbert Smith.
Originally published as v. 1 of: First white women over the Rockies. Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark, 1963.