Covered Wagon Women

  • Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
    Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
    By Kenneth L. Holmes

    Sandra Myres's 1982 book , Westering Women and the Frontier Experience , 1800-1915 , continued the debate over women's roles in the West . However , Myres elevated the West to the primary focus of her research , with women as one set of ...

  • Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The Oregon Trail
    Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The Oregon Trail
    By Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway

    Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both ...

  • Covered Wagon Women: 1851
    Covered Wagon Women: 1851
    By Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway

    The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known.

  • Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail
    Covered Wagon Women: 1852, The California Trail
    By Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway

    In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year.

  • Covered Wagon Women: 1854-1860
    Covered Wagon Women: 1854-1860
    By Shirley A. Leckie, Kenneth L. Holmes

    Educator Hannah Clapp traveled to California with a revolver by her side, speaking her mind in a letter included in this volume, which is also enriched by the trail diaries of seven other women.

  • Covered Wagon Women: 1853-1854
    Covered Wagon Women: 1853-1854
    By Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway

    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.

  • Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890
    Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890
    By Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway

    The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of...

  • Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890
    Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890
    By Kenneth L. Holmes, David Duniway

    For all readers captivated by the first Best of Covered Wagon Women collection, this new volume's focus on youthful travelers adds a fresh perspective to life on the trail.

  • Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890
    Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890
    By Kenneth L. Holmes

    Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890