Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903
by Kenneth L. Holmes
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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: the hardy 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 show more 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.. show less
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- [Introduction to the Bison Books Edition] To stop by a drugstore to pick up peppermint lozenges is a common-place errand--as familiar to readers today perhaps as it was to a woman named Huldah, who bought some of the flavore... (show all)d drops more than a century ago.
[Introduction to Volume XI] In this eleventh and final volume of Covered Wagon Women/i>, we bring to conclusion a long and happy journey during which we have shared the overland trails with a wide variety of westering wom... (show all)en.
In southern Nebraska, near the eastern edge of Lincoln County south of the Platte River, is the Peckham Precinct, settled by members of an 1879 wagon train from Wisconsin. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Introduction to the Bison Books Edition] As you travel across the late-nineteenth-century West with these diarists as you guides, bring your expectations along, but be prepared for some surprises.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Introduction to Volume XI] Thus the women tell their own story, just as it was happening, or immediately afterwards. "Immediacy" is the key word. These are primary documents of the first order. No fond recollections written years later can compare
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)With many good wishes or a speedy recovery of your health and when we are done with life here a reunion in Heaven.
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- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
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- 978 — History & geography History of North America Western United States
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- F591 .C79 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
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