Covered Wagon Women 1852 The Oregon Trail

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803278356

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4 by Kenneth L. Holmes 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 C. Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496225580

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5 by Kenneth L. Holmes,David C. Duniway Pdf

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.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
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 : 332 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Weldon W. Rau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050785990

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Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 by Weldon W. Rau Pdf

The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record, with numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 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
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Weldon Willis Rau
Publisher : Washington State University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636820644

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Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 by Weldon Willis Rau Pdf

With numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives mainly due to deadly cholera. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, released for the first time in book-length form. In its immediacy, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 opens a window to the travails of the overland journeyers--their stark camps, treacherous river fordings, and dishonest countrymen; the shimmering plains and mountain vastnesses; trepidation at crossing ancient Indian lands; and the dark angel of death hovering over the wagon columns. But also found here are acts of valor, compassion, and kindness, and the hope for a new life in a new land at the end of the trail.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway,Elliott West
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272995

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Covered Wagon Women by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway,Elliott West Pdf

Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, "the excitement continues". Economic hard times in Minnesota sent Allen and her husband to Montana in hopes of evading the droughts, grasshoppers, and failed crops that had plagued their farm. Allen and her compatriots, in this volume of Covered Wagon Women, experienced a journey much different than that of their predecessors. Many settlements now awaited those bound for the West, with amenities such as hotels and restaurants as well as grain suppliers to provide feed for the horses and mules that had replaced the slower oxen in pulling wagons. Routes were clearly marked -- some had been replaced entirely by railroad tracks. Nevertheless, many of the same dangers, fears, and aspirations confronted these dauntless women who traveled the overland trails.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806182995

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Best of Covered Wagon Women by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland experience. Some were written with the skilled pens of educated women. Others bear the marks of crude cabin learning, with archaic and imaginative spelling and a simplicity of expression. All convey the profound effect the westward trek had on these women. For too long these diaries and letters were secreted away in attics and basements or collected dust on the shelves of manuscript collections across the country. Their publication gives us a fresh perspective on the pioneer experience.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UVA:X001602311

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Covered Wagon Women by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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 : Susan G. Butruille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.