Walking west
By: Noëlle Sickels
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780312132088
Subjects: Women pioneers; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Fiction
Description: In 1852 a band of farmers from Indiana begin a trip in a wagon train to California. Among them is Alice Muller, a reluctant traveller forced to leave home by her husband's dreams of a better life. It is she who chronicles the journey's hardships, in the course of which she becomes the leader.