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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11

Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903

Kenneth L Holmes editor Katherine G Morrissey editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 cover

Final volume in this series includes accounts of dramatic transformation in the West; encounters with trains, irrigation canals, telegraphs, drugstores, and laundries

The restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in the frontier pantheon. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in this title suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and aspirations of a young nation.The stories seem simple—they left, they traveled, they settled—yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and aspirations of a young nation. In this concluding volume of the Covered Wagon Women series, we see the final animal-powered overland migrations that were even then yielding to railroad travel and, in a few short years, to the automobile. The diaries and letters resonate with the vigor and spirit that made possible the settling and community-building of the American West.

"This is a work to capture the heart as well as the historical mind. . . . Well worth reading."—Journal of the West

ISBN: 9780803273009

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 227g

195 pages