Covered Wagon Women 1840 1849

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496225542

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1 by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

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,David Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272944

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Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The Oregon Trail by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway Pdf

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,David Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080327291X

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Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway Pdf

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,David Duniway,Katherine Morrissey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803273002

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway,Katherine Morrissey Pdf

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.

Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307803177

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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel Pdf

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.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183022

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Best of Covered Wagon Women by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between 1846 and 1898. Ranging in age from eleven to nineteen, unmarried and without children of their own, these diarists had experiences different from those of older women who carried heavier responsibilities with them on the trail. These letters and diaries reflect both the unique perspective of youthful optimism and the experiences common among all female emigrants. The young women write of friendship and family, trail hardships, and explorations such as visits to Indian gravesites. Some like Sallie Hester even write of enjoying the company of men, and many speculate about marriage prospects. Domestic roles did not define the girls’ trail experience; only the four oldest in this collection recorded helping with chores. As they journey through Indian lands, these writers show that even their youth did not prevent them from holding notions of white racial superiority. Two of the selections are newly published, having appeared only in limited-distribution collector’s editions of the original series. For all readers captivated by the first Best of Covered Wagon Women collection, this new volume’s focus on youthful travelers adds a fresh perspective to life on the trail.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : LCCN:82072586

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Covered Wagon Women by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272774

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Covered Wagon Women by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

Offers the writings and recollections of thirteen Anglo women who traveled to the American West in the 1840s, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496225566

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2 by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

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 : Susan G. Butruille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0963483986

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Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail by Susan G. Butruille Pdf

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

Author : Sarah Raymond Herndon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783387084771

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Days on the Road; Crossing the Plains in 1865 by Sarah Raymond Herndon Pdf

Author : Martha Gay Masterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049495644

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One Woman's West by Martha Gay Masterson Pdf

Pioneers -- Northwest, women pioneers.

Author : Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613740002

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Women of the Frontier by Brandon Marie Miller Pdf

An Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.

Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802199140

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Wagons West by Frank McLynn Pdf

An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Shannon Applegate
Publisher : Beech Tree Paperback Book
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001459716

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Skookum by Shannon Applegate Pdf

"'Skookum' is the startlingly original narrative rendering of the experiences of a prominent westering family from 1843 to the present. The remarkable story of the Applegate family encompasses many of the predominant themes of the early American West: the overland crossing via the old Oregon Tail in 1843, the quirky restlessness of Applegate men who, after reaching the 'promised land,' permitted their travel- worn families to rest only for a while, the effects of the intermit- tent gold rushes that continued to upset family lifre long after 1849, the troubled relations between the settler and the Indian ... Shannon Applegate is interested not only in what happemned to her family, but in what it meant to them. How did it feel to be a mother witnessing the death of her child on the way to Oregon, or to be a settler's son watching his Indian friends and old playmates rounded up in the dead of winter and marched off to the reserves? What did it do to the course of a young woman's life when she learned that her father has scratched her name from the family Bible? What sort of world was it where an old blue sugar bowl filled with gold dust could be unconcernedly set out in plain sight?"--From paper dustcover.