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.

Wagon Wheel Kitchens

Wagon Wheel Kitchens
Author: Jacqueline B. Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1993
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Re-creates the highs and lows of cooking and eating on the Oregon Trail.

The Souvenir of Western Women

The Souvenir of Western Women
Author: Mary Osborn Douthit
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Presses of Anderson & Duniway
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1905
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN:

"A complex picture of the works and pioneer experiences of the women in the Pacific Northwest--the "old Oregon" country--from the time of woman's first appearance in these unexplored wilds to the present day. The purpose of this book is to record woman's part in working out the plan of our Western civilization; no other civilization, perhaps, bearing so conspicuously the imprint of her hand and brain"--Pref.