Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 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 westâ‚¬"about 2,160 men and 1,440 womenâ‚¬"tended 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.
Country USA
Brand Bison Books
Manufacturer Bison Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 4 photographs
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780803272873
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851