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Title Women's diaries of the westward journey / [collected by] Lillian Schlissel ; preface by Carl N. Degler.

Publication Info. New York : Schocken Books, [1992]
©1992

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  978.02 WOMEN    On Display
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  978 WOM    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  978.02 WOM    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.02 W84    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  978.02 WOM    Check Shelf
Edition Expanded [edition].
Description viii, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in the life of women
Studies in the life of women.
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."
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.
Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1950 -- Sources.
Added Author Schlissel, Lillian.
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
9780805210040 paperback
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