Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865

The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These...
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Author: Maria Montoya
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865 by Montoya, Maria

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865

CHF 24.18

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865

CHF 24.18
Author: Maria Montoya
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to obtain grain for their livestock and food for themselves. They also sped up the process of mail delivery to remote Western outposts. Tragically, the easing of overland travel coincided with renewed conflicts with the Cheyenne and other Plains Indians. The massacre of Black Kettle's people at Sand Creek instigated two years of bloody reprisals and counterreprisals. "Amid this turmoil and change, these daring women continued to build on the example set by earlier women pioneers. As Harriet Loughary wrote upon her arrival in California, "[after] two thousands of miles in an ox team, making an average of eighteen miles a day enduring privations and dangers . . . When we think of the earliest pioneers . . . we feel an untold gratitude towards them."

Author: Maria Montoya, David Duniway
Publisher: Bison
Published: 03/01/1999
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.95h x 6.64w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780803272972

About the Author
Kenneth L. Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College. He edited and compiled Covered Wagon Women, drawing on archives and private sources. Introducing this Bison Books edition is Maria Montoya, an assistant professor of history and an assistant professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan.

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