Covered Wagon Women 1853 1854

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272952

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Covered Wagon Women: 1853-1854 by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway Pdf

“We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made,” wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minimalist record cuts deep, and Eliza Butler Ground and Margaret Butler Smith, sisters who wrote revealing letters after arriving. Going to California in 1854 were Elizabeth Myrick, who wrote a no-nonsense diary, and the teenage Mary Burrell, whose wit and exuberance prevail.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,Linda Peavy,Ursula Smith
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803272952

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 6 by Kenneth L. Holmes,Linda Peavy,Ursula Smith Pdf

Offers the writings and recollections of ten women who traveled to the American West in 1853-1854, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway
Publisher : Arthur H Clark
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 087062170X

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Covered Wagon Women: 1853-1854 by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway 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 : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272987

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Covered Wagon Women: 1864-1868 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
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Barbara Brackman
Publisher : Kansas City Star Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0971292000

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Prairie Flower by Barbara Brackman Pdf

New applique patterns in the Kansas City Star heritage.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,Shirley A. Leckie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803272960

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Covered Wagon Women: 1854-1860 by Kenneth L. Holmes,Shirley A. Leckie Pdf

Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the “freedom costume” called bloomers. In 1858 Holmes joined the Pikes Peak gold rush and was the first woman of record to climb the famous mountain. Educator Hannah Clapp traveled to California with a revolver by her side, speaking her mind in a letter included in this volume, which is also enriched by the trail diaries of seven other women. Among them were Sarah Sutton, who died in 1854, just before reaching Oregon’s Willamette Valley; Sarah Maria Mousley, a Mormon woman traveling to Utah in 1857; and Martha Missouri Moore, who drove thousands of sheep from Missouri to California with her husband in 1860.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183046

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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 : Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493026685

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Heart of the Trail by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien Pdf

Updated and expanded for its twentieth anniversary—the beloved book that tells the stories of the women who traveled West. In Heart of the Trail Mary Barmeyer O'Brien beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of women who crossed the American frontier by wagon during the great Western migration of the mid nineteenth century. While their stories are widely different, each of these remarkable women was inspiring, courageous, and resourceful. From the successes of mountaineer Julia Anna Archibald to the grueling trials of Mary Powers, these stories reflect the adventure and hardship experienced by the thousands of women who took to the trails. The legacy of their letters and diaries, most written on the trail, is a fascinating addition to understanding the history of the West. Mary Barmeyer O'Brien’s books on the pioneer experience include The Promise of the West; Jeannette Rankin: Bright Star in the Big Sky; Outlasting the Trail: The Story of a Woman's Journey West; May: The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton; and Across Death Valley. She lives in Polson, Montana.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David C. Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 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
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : LCCN:95021200

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Covered Wagon Women: 1854-1860 by Kenneth L. Holmes Pdf

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272871

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Covered Wagon Women: 1851 by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway Pdf

The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west—about 2,160 men and 1,440 women—tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal land law that awarded a husband and wife a full section. Volume 3 of Covered Wagon Women contains the diaries and letters of six Oregon-bound women, as well as the journal of an English Mormon woman who described her experience all the way from Liverpool to Salt Lake City. The words of these pioneer women convey their exhilaration, courage, exhaustion, and terror in traveling so far into the unknown.

Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0618234756

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Words West by Ginger Wadsworth Pdf

Here are the moving stories of these young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.

Author : Nathan Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000349795

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Mormon Visual Culture and the American West by Nathan Rees Pdf

This book explores the place of art in Latter-day Saint society during the first 50 years of the Utah settlement, beginning in 1847. Nathan Rees uncovers the critical role that images played in nineteenth-century Mormon religion, politics, and social practice. These artists not only represented, but actively participated in debates about theology, politics, race, gender, and sexuality at a time when Latter-day Saints were grappling with evolving doctrine, conflict with Native Americans, and political turmoil resulting from their practice of polygamy. The book makes an important contribution to art history, Mormon studies, American studies, and religious studies.

Author : Diana L. Ahmad
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781943859108

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Success Depends on the Animals by Diana L. Ahmad Pdf

Between 1840 and 1869, thousands of people crossed the American continent looking for a new life in the West. Success Depends on the Animals explores the relationships and encounters that these emigrants had with animals, both wild and domestic, as they traveled the Overland Trail. In the longest migration of people in history, the overlanders were accompanied by thousands of work animals such as horses, oxen, mules, and cattle. These travelers also brought dogs and other companion animals, and along the way confronted unknown wild animals. Ahmad’s study is the first to explore how these emigrants became dependent upon the animals that traveled with them, and how, for some, this dependence influenced a new way of thinking about the human-animal bond. The pioneers learned how to work with the animals and take care of them while on the move. Many had never ridden a horse before, let alone hitched oxen to a wagon. Due to the close working relationship that the emigrants were forced to have with these animals, many befriended the domestic beasts of burden, even attributing human characteristics to them. Drawing on primary sources such as journals, diaries, and newspaper accounts, Ahmad explores how these new experiences influenced fresh ideas about the role of animals in pioneer life. Scholars and students of western history and animal studies will find this a fascinating and distinctive analysis of an understudied topic.