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Women's diaries of the westward journey

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1992

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Title:	Women's diaries of the westward journey / [collected by] Lillian Schlissel ; preface by Carl N. Degler.
Call Number:	978.02 Women's
Edition:	Expanded [ed.]
Publisher, Date:	New York : Schocken Books, c1992.
Description:	viii, 278 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Series:	Studies in the life of women Studies in the life of women.
Subjects:	Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources. Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860 -- Sources. West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Sources. West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945 -- Sources.
Other Author:	Schlissel, Lillian.
Notes:	"Expanded and with a new introduction by the author" --Tp. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-265) and index.
Contents:	Preface / Carl N. Degler -- Families in Transit I, 1841-1850 -- Families in Transit II, 1851-1855 -- The Later Journeys, 1856-1867 -- "A Woman's Trip Across the Plains in 1849" / Catherine Haun -- "Notes by the Wayside En Route to Oregon, 1852" / Lydia Allen Rudd -- "Diary, 1853 " / Amelia Stewart Knight -- "Touring from Mitchell, Iowa, to California, 1862" / Jane Gould Tourtillott -- "A Sketch of Her Life" / Rebecca Hildreth Nutting Woodson -- "Diary, 1867" / Barsina Rogers French -- Overland Diaries and Other Primary Sources.
ISBN:	0805210040 (pbk.)

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