Across the Plains: Sarah Royce's Western Narrative

by Sarah Royce

On April 30, 1849, Sarah Bayliss Royce, along with her husband, Josiah, and their daughter, Mary, left her home in Tipton, Iowa, and headed for California in a covered wagon. Along the way, she kept a diary which, nearly thirty years later, served as the basis for a memoir she titled Across the Plains . That book has been freshly transcribed by Jennifer Dawes Adkison from Royce's original handwritten document, and this new edition is faithful to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816527261
• ISBN13: 9780816527267
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"