Women's Diaries of the westward journey
by Lillian Schlissel
- New York Schocken Books 1982
- 262 p
Includes Index
Families in transit I, 1841-1850 -- Families in transit II, 1851-1855 -- The later journeys, 1856-1867 -- The diaries -- "A woman's trip across the plains in 1849" / Catherine Haun -- "Notes by the wayside en route to Oregon, 1852" / Lydia Allen Rudd -- "Diary, 1853" / Amelia Stewart Knight -- "Touring from Mitchell, Iowa, to California, 1862" / Jane Gould Tourtillott.
Describes the courage of American women who journeyed West between 1840 and 1870.
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Overland journeys to the Pacific Women-West(US)--History--19th Century West(U.S.)--History--1849-1950