Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 5
• Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive de... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 11
• The stories seem simple--they left, they traveled, they settled--yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figu... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 9

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 9
• In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a valey ... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 1
• The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 3
• The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting ... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11

• Hardcover | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 11
• The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn ... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 10

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 10
• Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, "the excitement continues." Economic hard ti... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 4
• In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted ... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 7
• Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hanna... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8

Maria Montoya

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 8
• The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty... Lees meer

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 6

• Paperback | Engels | Covered Wagon Women | nr. 6
• "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made," wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train jo... Lees meer