COVERED WAGON WOMEN, VOLUME 5 by Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor), David C. Duniway (Editor), Kenneth L. Holmes ( 9780803272941 )

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Title:

COVERED WAGON WOMEN, VOLUME 5
DIARIES AND LETTERS FROM THE WESTERN TRAILS, 1852: THE OREGON TRAIL

By:

Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor), David C. Duniway (Editor), Kenneth L. Holmes

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£14.99
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ISBN 10:

0803272944

ISBN 13:

9780803272941

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Pub. date:

1 June, 1997

Pages:

320

Description:

Includes the vivid diaries of women who rode the wagons in 1852

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

Illus.

Publication:

Imprint:

Bison Books

Returns:

Returnable

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