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HTML: "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 with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minimalist record cuts deep, and Eliza Butler Ground and Margaret Butler Smith, sisters who wrote revealing letters after arriving. Going to California in 1854 were Elizabeth Myrick, who wrote a no-nonsense diary, and the teenage Mary Burrell, whose wit and exuberance prevail. . … (more) |
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O I had time and talent to describe this curious country.
--Elizabeth Dixon Smith The chief figure of the American West, is not the long-haired, fringed-legging man ridding a raw-boned pony, but the gaunt and sad-faced woman sitting on the front seat of the wagon, following her lord where he might lead her, her face hidden in the same ragged sunbonnet which had crossed the Appalachians and Missouri long before. That was American, my brethren! There was the seed of America's wealth. There was the great romance of America -- the woman in the sunbonnet; and not, after all, the hero with the rifle across his saddle horn. Who has written her story? Who has painted her picture? -- Emerson Hough, The Passing of the Frontier | |
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Dedicated to CLIFFORD MERRILL DRURY whose three-volume series, First White Women Over the Rockies, laid the foundation for much of what follows here. | |
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[Introduction to the Bison Books Edition] Happily, the concept of a women's West no longer surprises us. [Introduction] Who indeed? Her maiden name had been Elizabeth Munson, nicknamed "Betsey." | |
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[Introduction to the Bison Books Edition] Readers can return to these thirteen migrants again and again, looking for new markers that point to western women as fully engaged participants in the shaping of American history. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) [Introduction] After this speech the presiding officer gave others a chance to speak, and a well-known pioneer lawyer uttered the following matchless words:
Mr. President, I was very much interested in the eulogy the orator of the day paid to the Pilgrim Fathers, all of which was no doubt deserved; but I want to say a word for the Pilgrim Mothers. All my life, Mr. President, I have heard speakers sing the praises of the Pilgrim Fathers for the great hardships they underwent. It has always been the Pilgrim Fathers this and the Pilgrim Fathers that, and I think the time has come when we should give due credit to the Pilgrim Mothers, for they not only endured all the hardships of the Pilgrim Fathers, but, in addition, endured the Pilgrim Fathers besides. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) I have not been in the street since I began to keep house; I don't care to go into a house until I get ready to go home; not that I am homesick, but it is nothing but gold, gold - no social feelings - and I want to get my part and go where my eyes can rest upon some green things.
A Boarding House Keeper, formerly of Portland, Maine, to her children Portland Advertizer, quoted by Missouri Republican, Oct. 6, 1849 (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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HTML: "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 with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, was headed for Salt Lake City. Her cultured, introspective diary touches on the feelings of sensitive people bound together in a stressful undertaking. Celinda Hines and Rachel Taylor were Methodists seeking their new Canaan in Oregon. Also Oregon-bound in 1853 were Sarah (Sally) Perkins, whose minimalist record cuts deep, and Eliza Butler Ground and Margaret Butler Smith, sisters who wrote revealing letters after arriving. Going to California in 1854 were Elizabeth Myrick, who wrote a no-nonsense diary, and the teenage Mary Burrell, whose wit and exuberance prevail. . ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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The collection comes from many museums across the United States. It was interesting to hear the journey from a woman's point of view. Very rarely did the woman complain about her dire circumstances, or about the death of her loved ones. They would bury their husbands and children, and the next day they would start again on their travels. Most of the women had around 8 children to care for, plus her husband. They would cook for their families and keep things in order day after day. Through the snow and rain and across the Snake River. It was truly remarkable to read.
I really enjoyed this book, and cannot believe I almost forgot to blog about it!! GREAT book - check it out. I can't wait to read volume #2.
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