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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1374559 in Books
- Published on: 1996-04-01
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Kenneth L. Holmes made the very wise editorial decision not to update, revise, or parenthetically correct the quirky and often fascinating prose of these nineteenth-century women. . . . The writing is rich with the sounds of common speech and jargon . . . and it should be a gold mine for students of everyday life."—John Mack Faragher, Western Historical Quarterly
(John Mack Faragher Western Historical Quarterly )"Covered Wagon Women is to be valued. . . . First, it brings together in a single edition a major collection of the diaries of overland women. . . . Second, this is probably the most perfectly documented edition a researcher will find."—Lillian Schlissel, Pacific Historical Review
(Lillian Schlissel Pacific Historical Review )
Borders Books and Music
I thought you would like to know that your audio book, Margaret A. Frink diary from COVERED WAGON WOMEN, was chosen to be a "staff pick of the month," by our assistant manager. I think your series, "Living Voices of the Past," is a great idea and I wish you luck with it.
A customer,Mr. D.W. McPheeters
It's incredible. Every American should listen to this. My children,ages 7, 11, and 15 loved it.
