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Title Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails. Volume 3, 1851 / edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1995]
©1995

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Summary 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
Notes Includes index
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Subject Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Biography
Frontier and pioneer life
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Women pioneers
SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources
West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Sources
Subject West United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Diaries
History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Holmes, Kenneth L., editor.
ISBN 9780803280861
0803280866
Other Titles Diaries and letters from the western trails, 1851