Holmes, Kenneth L

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.

Offers the writings and recollections of thirteen Anglo women who traveled to the American West in the 1840s, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.

Presents the firsthand accounts of eight women who traveled the overland trails to the unsettled west in the nineteenth century by covered wagon.