Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5
Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496225589

Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to climb Independence Rock. She meets her future husband, Benjamin Duniway, at the end of the Oregon Trail and, in the years to come, finds fame as a writer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the Northwest. Her grandson, David Duniway, edited her trail diary for Covered Wagon Women. This volume includes the equally vivid diaries of other women who rode the wagons in 1852. Polly Coon of Wisconsin recalls trading with the Indians. Martha Read, starting from Illinois, is particularly alert to the suffering of the animals, noting hundreds of dead cows and horses along the way. Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank, twin sisters from Illinois, jointly chronicle their once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail

Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail
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, Volume 1

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1
Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 294
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.

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Author: Lillian Schlissel
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307803171

An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.

Diary of Sallie Hester

Diary of Sallie Hester
Author: Sallie Hester
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1476541930

"Presents excerpts from the diary of Sallie Hester, a teenager who traveled West on the Oregon Trail in a wagon train in the mid-1800s"--

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11
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.

Prairie Flower

Prairie Flower
Author: Barbara Brackman
Publisher: Kansas City Star Books
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2001-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780971292000

New applique patterns in the Kansas City Star heritage.

Music in the Westward Expansion

Music in the Westward Expansion
Author: Laura Dean
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-05-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476685223

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room for musical instruments with their guns, food, and tools, while taking only the minimal necessities that would fit into modest wagons. During what seemed like an interminable dusty journey, music was often the sole source of light and happiness for these exhausted travelers. This book examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and the diverse cultural landscape of the Old West, including northern Cheyenne courtship flute makers, fiddle-playing explorers, dancing fur trappers, hymn-singing missionaries, frontier flutists, girls with guitars, wagon-driving balladeers, poetic cowboys, singing farmers, musical miners, and preaching songsters.

Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail

Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail
Author: Susan G. Butruille
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9780963483980

Tracing the trail and tracking down and writing about places of interest about women: landmarks, statues, signposts, markers, gravestones.

The Great Medicine Road

The Great Medicine Road
Author: Kerin Tate
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014
Genre: California National Historic Trail
ISBN: 080616025X

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