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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
Price:
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803272774
Pub Date: September 1995
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
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...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865
Price:
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272972
Pub Date: April 1999
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
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CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272910
Pub Date: April 1997
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
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...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 9
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1864-1868
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803272989
Pub Date: September 1999
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were “nooning on a nice stream in a valey in the mountains.” A day later she observed...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 6
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1853-1854
Price:
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272958
Pub Date: April 1998
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
“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...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
Price:
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803272743
Pub Date: April 1996
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
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...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803273009
Pub Date: September 2000
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
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: the hardy pioneer...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 10
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803272996
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, “the excitement continues.” Economic hard times in Minnesota sent Allen and her husband...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860
Price:
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272965
Pub Date: September 1998
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
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"...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail
Price:
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272941
Pub Date: June 1997
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
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...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
Price:
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272873
Pub Date: August 1996
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
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...
Best of Covered Wagon Women
Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806141046
Pub Date: May 2010
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
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. 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.
Best of Covered Wagon Women
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806139142
Pub Date: April 2008
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland experience.
Covered Wagon Women
Diaries and Letters from the West 1840-1890
Price:
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780870622236
Pub Date: May 1993
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
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. 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.
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803272774
Pub Date: September 1995
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272972
Pub Date: April 1999
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272910
Pub Date: April 1997
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 9
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1864-1868
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803272989
Pub Date: September 1999
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 6
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1853-1854
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272958
Pub Date: April 1998
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780803272743
Pub Date: April 1996
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803273009
Pub Date: September 2000
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 10
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780803272996
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272965
Pub Date: September 1998
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272941
Pub Date: June 1997
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780803272873
Pub Date: August 1996
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Best of Covered Wagon Women
Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806141046
Pub Date: May 2010
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Best of Covered Wagon Women
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806139142
Pub Date: April 2008
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Covered Wagon Women
Diaries and Letters from the West 1840-1890
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780870622236
Pub Date: May 1993
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press