Covered Wagon Women Volume 11

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496225546
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1 written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780803272910
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307803171
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey written by Lillian Schlissel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0806183020
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Best of Covered Wagon Women written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780803273009
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Jane Auch
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0440414911
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Journey to Nowhere written by Mary Jane Auch and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1815, Remembrance "Mem" Nye and her family set off in a covered wagon from their farm in Connecticut to the western New York wilderness. Mem and her mother see it as a journey to nowhere since there won't be any houses or neighbors, just endless forest. Their journey is filled with the uncertain danger of wild animals, raging storms, and cruel strangers. When Mem is unexpectedly separated from her family, she must face every danger alone while hoping to find her family again.

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613028387
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Daily Life in a Covered Wagon written by Paul Erickson and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what it was like traveling on the Oregon Trail, including what travelers ate, wore, and saw along the route

Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805464662
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Angel Train written by Gilbert Morris and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You’re asking Bible-believing righteous folk to put their lives in the hands of jail birds.” Popular romance and historical fiction writer Gilbert Morris serves up his most unique story yet in Angel Train. The mid-1800s tale introduces Charity Morgan, a beautiful yet businesslike young heroine whose devout religious community is losing its Pennsylvania homestead to the economic recession. To survive and stay together, the members plan to form a wagon train to Oregon where free land is aplenty. The only catch is that no wagon master is better equipped to lead them safely out West than inmate Casey Tremayne and his band of fellow felons. After Charity’s prison warden uncle offers the men parole upon completion of this sacred and dangerous journey, only divine intervention can bring all parties to common ground.

Author : Susan G. Butruille
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963483980
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail written by Susan G. Butruille and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the trail and tracking down and writing about places of interest about women: landmarks, statues, signposts, markers, gravestones.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496225562
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2 written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.