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by Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor); Introduction by Susan Armitage

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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. Those who did go west--about 2,160 men and 1,440 women--tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal land law that awarded a husband and wife a full section.

Volume 3 of Covered Wagon Women contains the diaries and letters of six Oregon-bound women, as well as the journal of an English Mormon woman who described her experience all the way from Liverpool to Salt Lake City. The words of these pioneer women convey their exhilaration, courage, exhaustion, and terror in traveling so far into the unknown.

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Volume 3 of Covered Wagon Women contains the diaries and letters of six Oregon-bound women, as well as the journal of an English Mormon woman who described her experience all the way from Liverpool to Salt Lake City. The words of these pioneer women conveys their exhilaration, courage, exhaustion, and terror in traveling so far into the unknown.

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  • Title Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
  • Author Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor); Introduction by Susan Armitage
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 291
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1996-08-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780803272873 / 0803272871
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.07 x 5.29 x 0.72 in (20.50 x 13.44 x 1.83 cm)
  • Reading level 1630
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Plains
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.), Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95021200
  • Dewey Decimal Code 978

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. Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history at Washington State University, author of many books about women in the West, and the former faculty editor of Frontiers.
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