Title Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails. Volume 3, 1851 / edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes.

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1995]
	©1995

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Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Includes index.
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.
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Subject	Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
	Women pioneers.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries.
Genre/Form	Diaries.
Subject	Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence.
Genre/Form	Correspondence.
Subject	West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.
	West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Sources.
	Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources.
	Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources.
	Overland journeys to the Pacific.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources.
	Frontier and pioneer life.
Genre/Form	Sources.
	Electronic books.
	History.
	Records and correspondence.
	Biographies.
	Diaries.
	Personal correspondence.
	Personal correspondence.
Added Author	Holmes, Kenneth L., editor.
Added Title	Diaries and letters from the western trails, 1851
ISBN	9780803280861 (electronic book)
	0803280866 (electronic book)

Title Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails. Volume 3, 1851 / edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes.

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