Describes the lives and varied experiences of some of the many women who traveled across the American West, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Mary Richardson Walker, Harriet Sanders, Maria Virginia Slade, and Elizabeth Custer.
Presents a short biography about ex-slave Clara Brown who traveled to Colorado to begin a new life and look for her daughter who was sold as a small child, and describes how she became rich enough to help other freed slaves after the Civil War to also begin new lives.
diaries and letters from the western trails, 1851 : volume 3
Holmes, Kenneth L
1996
Offers the writings and recollections of seven women who traveled to the American West in 1851, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.
Presents and discusses the diaries and letters of six women who traveled overland in covered wagons during the 1850s, arranged chronologically from their date of departure at the Missouri River.
"1886 Montana stands on the brink of statehood, and Dianne Selby finds her world turned upside down in this conclusion to Tracie Peterson's Montana saga. Through the twists and turns of life and nature, Dianne comes to realize that the hope within Jesus Christ is the only hope that lasts"--Provided by publisher.
"Jeremiah McHenry returns to Medora to make a new life. Will he be able to convince Amethyst that he is the kind of man she's been looking for?"--Provided by publisher.
