Name: covered wagon women,diaries and letters from the western trails 1853-1854
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Author: Duniway, David ; Holmes, Kenneth L. ; Smith, Ursula
ISBN: 9780803272958

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covered wagon women,diaries and letters from the western trails 1853-1854

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Duniway

Introduction by

Ursula Smith

Illustrated by

Kenneth L. Holmes

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Language

English

Pages

291

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

0803272952

ISBN13

9780803272958

Synopsis "covered wagon women,diaries and letters from the western trails 1853-1854"

"We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minimalist record cuts deep, and Eliza Butler Ground and Margaret Butler Smith, sisters who wrote revealing letters after arriving. Going to California in 1854 were Elizabeth Myrick, who wrote a no-nonsense diary, and the teenage Mary Burrell, whose wit and exuberance prevail. Introducing this Bison Books edition are Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, freelance writers living in Vermont. They collaborated on Women in Waiting: Life on the Home Frontier.

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