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Title Women's diaries of the westward journey / [collected by] Lillian Schlissel ; foreword by Mary Clearman Blew.

Publication Info. New York : Schocken Books, 2004.
©1982

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  978.02 SCHLISSEL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  978.02 WOMEN'S    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note Originally published: c1982. With new foreword.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.
Contents Families in transit I, 1841-1850 -- Families in transit II, 1851-1855 -- The later journeys, 1856-1867 -- The diaries. A woman't trip across the plains in 1849 / Catherine Haun ; Notes by the wayside en route to Oregon, 1852 / Lydia Allen Rudd ; Diary, 1853 / Amelia Stewary 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.
Subject Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources.
Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860 -- Sources.
West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Sources.
Added Author Schlissel, Lillian.
ISBN 0805211764 paperback
9780805211764 paperback
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