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Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Release : 1983
Genre : Frontier and pioneer life
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail written by Kenneth L. Holmes. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Release : 2020-11-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 357/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4 by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4 written by Kenneth L. Holmes. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Release : 1995-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 910/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail written by Kenneth L. Holmes. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Release : 1995
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The Oregon Trail by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The Oregon Trail written by Kenneth L. Holmes. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. 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.
Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Release : 2020-08-12
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5 by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5 written by Kenneth L. Holmes. This book was released on 2020-08-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
