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Title Best of Covered wagon women / edited by Kenneth L. Holmes ; with a new introduction by Michael L. Tate.

Publication Info. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]
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 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  978.02 BES  V.1    Check Shelf
Description volume <2> pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Note "The best of Covered wagon women is based on material drawn from the Covered wagon women series (11 volumes) originally published by the Arthur H. Clark Company"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents v.1 -- The commentaries of Keturah Belknap, 1848 -- Adventures of a party of gold-seekers / Margaret A. Fink -- Journals of travails to Oregon / Amelia Hadley -- Twin sisters on the Oregon Trail / Cecelia Adams & Parthenia Blank -- Iowa to the Columbia River / Amelia Knight -- Trip for the Colorado mines / Ellen Tootle -- A letter from the Oregon Trail / Elizabeth Elliott -- The journal of Mary Ringo.
v.2 -- Introduction / Melody M. Miyamoto -- Editorial considerations -- The Donner party letters 1846 / Tamsen E. Donner and Virginia E. B. Reed -- The diary of a pioneer girl 1849 / Sallie Hester -- Crossing the plains 1851 / Harriet Talcott Buckingham -- Journal of our journey to Oregon 1851 / Eugenia Zieber -- A teenager's letter from Sacramento 1851 / Elizabeth Keegan -- Iowa to the "land of gold" 1852 / Eliza Ann McAuley -- Crossing over the Great Plains 1852 / Harriet Scott Palmer -- Overland trip across the plains 1853 / Rachel Taylor -- Council Bluffs to California 1854 / Mary Burrell -- Thoughts by the way 1864-1865 / Harriet Hitchcock -- To Oregon by wagon 1898 / Mae Stone
Subject Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries.
Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence.
West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.
West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources.
Added Author Holmes, Kenneth L.
Added Title Covered wagon women.
ISBN 9780806139142 paperback alkaline paper
0806139145 paperback alkaline paper
9780806141046 paperback v. 2 alkaline paper
0806141042 paperback v. 2 alkaline paper
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