Covered Wagon Women, Volume 10: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883

Book Overview

Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, "the excitement continues." Economic hard times in Minnesota sent Allen and her husband to Montana in hopes of evading the droughts, grasshoppers, and failed crops that had plagued their farm. Allen and her compatriots, in this volume of Covered Wagon Women, experience a much different journey than their predecessors. Many settlements now...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803272995
• ISBN13: 9780803272996
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Covered Wagon Women

This was a wonderful collection of stories from only a small portion of the women who made their way west along the Oregon Trail. Most are quite short and merely diary entries, others are from the letters sent back east from on the trail. I read this for fun and it was worth it. I love history and learning about the women of old by their own stories, rather than a hyped-up Hollywood tale (we all know the movies). I would recommend this to any woman, young or old, who is interested in women's historical accounts from the mid-late 1800s.