TY  - GEN
T1  - Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails.
A2  - Holmes, Kenneth L.
LA  - English
PP  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
YR  - 1995
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn906811768
AB  - 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 west⁰́₄about 2,160 men and 1,440 women⁰́₄tended 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.
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - F596
SN  - 9780803280861
SN  - 0803280866
KW  - Women pioneers : West (U.S.) : Biography.
KW  - Women pioneers : West (U.S.) : Diaries.
KW  - Women pioneers : West (U.S.) : Correspondence.
KW  - West (U.S.) : History : Sources.
KW  - West (U.S.) : Biography : Sources.
KW  - Overland journeys to the Pacific : Sources.
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life : West (U.S.) : Sources.
KW  - États-Unis (Ouest) : Histoire : Sources.
KW  - Voyages par terre jusqu'au Pacifique : Sources.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Overland journeys to the Pacific
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - West United States
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Diaries
KW  - History
KW  - Personal correspondence
KW  - Sources
ER  -