Edition |
Expanded [edition]. |
Description |
viii, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Studies in the life of women |
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Studies in the life of women.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index. |
Note |
This edition has a new introduction by the author. |
Summary |
Includes "writings of more than a hundred women" who experienced the "trip across the continent." |
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Revised edition includes material on "young girls...between eight and sixteen for whom the monumental crossing was a lark." |
Contents |
Preface / Carl N. Degler -- Families in Transit I, 1841-1850 -- Families in Transit II, 1851-1855 -- The Later Journeys, 1856-1867 -- "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 -- "A Sketch of Her Life" / Rebecca Hildreth Nutting Woodson -- "Diary, 1867" / Barsina Rogers French -- Overland Diaries and Other Primary Sources. |
Subject |
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources.
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Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1950 -- Sources.
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Added Author |
Schlissel, Lillian.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Women's diaries of the westward journey. Expanded [ed.] New York : Schocken Books, c1992 (OCoLC)608485378 |
ISBN |
0805210040 paperback $14.00 |
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9780805210040 paperback |
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