Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail
Title | Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780803272910 |
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.
Covered Wagon Women: 1850
Title | Covered Wagon Women: 1850 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803272743 |
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.
Covered Wagon Women: 1851 The California trail
Title | Covered Wagon Women: 1851 The California trail PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
Best of Covered Wagon Women
Title | Best of Covered Wagon Women PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2014-10-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0806183020 |
The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between 1846 and 1898. Ranging in age from eleven to nineteen, unmarried and without children of their own, these diarists had experiences different from those of older women who carried heavier responsibilities with them on the trail. These letters and diaries reflect both the unique perspective of youthful optimism and the experiences common among all female emigrants. The young women write of friendship and family, trail hardships, and explorations such as visits to Indian gravesites. Some like Sallie Hester even write of enjoying the company of men, and many speculate about marriage prospects. Domestic roles did not define the girls’ trail experience; only the four oldest in this collection recorded helping with chores. As they journey through Indian lands, these writers show that even their youth did not prevent them from holding notions of white racial superiority. Two of the selections are newly published, having appeared only in limited-distribution collector’s editions of the original series. For all readers captivated by the first Best of Covered Wagon Women collection, this new volume’s focus on youthful travelers adds a fresh perspective to life on the trail.
One Woman's West
Title | One Woman's West PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Gay Masterson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Pioneers -- Northwest, women pioneers.
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11
Title | Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803273009 |
The stories seem simple?they left, they traveled, they settled?yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: theøhardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and aspirations of a young nation. In this concluding volume of the Covered Wagon Women series, we see the final animal-powered overland migrations that were even then yielding to railroad travel and, in a few short years, to the automobile. The diaries and letters resonate with the vigor and spirit that made possible the settling and community-building of the American West.
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1
Title | Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2020-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1496225546 |
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.