Best of Covered Wagon Women

The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration...
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Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
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Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women by Holmes, Kenneth L.

Best of Covered Wagon Women

CHF 28.84

Best of Covered Wagon Women

CHF 28.84
Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland experience. Some were written with the skilled pens of educated women. Others bear the marks of crude cabin learning, with archaic and imaginative spelling and a simplicity of expression. All convey the profound effect the westward trek had on these women.

For too long these diaries and letters were secreted away in attics and basements or collected dust on the shelves of manuscript collections across the country. Their publication gives us a fresh perspective on the pioneer experience.



Author: Kenneth L. Holmes
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780806139142


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2008 pg. 95
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 94

About the Author
Holmes, Kenneth L.: -

Kenneth L. Holmes (1914-95) was Professor of History at Oregon College of Education (now Western Oregon University) in Monmouth. He edited and compiled the eleven volumes of the Covered Wagon Women series.

Tate, Michael L.: - Michael L. Tate is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and author of The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West and Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail.

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