[PDF] Covered Wagon Women Volume 11 eBook

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803273009

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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 : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1496225546

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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 : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0307803171

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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 : Joanna L. Stratton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476753598

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From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803272910

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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 : Sarah Raymond Herndon
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1902
Category : History
ISBN :

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The author was a member of the Hardinbrooke ox-train; this is a journal of her experiences in the Montana migration.

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 1997-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613028387

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Describes what it was like traveling on the Oregon Trail, including what travelers ate, wore, and saw along the route

Author : David Klausmeyer
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780762730827

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Travel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to "face the elephant" as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trail diaries and memoirs that document this momentous period in American history, Oregon Trail Stories is a fascinating look at the great American migration of the 19th century.

Author : Mary Jane Auch
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 1998-11-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0440414911

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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.