Covered wagon women :: diaries and letters from the western trails. Volume 3, 1851 /

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 la...

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Weitere Verfasser: Holmes, Kenneth L. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1995]
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9780803280861
0803280866