Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860
- 300 pages
- English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860
About this book
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 Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the "freedom costume" called bloomers. In 1858 Holmes joined the Pikes Peak gold rush and was the first woman of record to climb the famousmountain. Educator Hannah Clapp traveled to California with a revolver by her side, speaking her mind in a letter included in this volume, which is also enriched by the trail diaries of seven other women. Among them were Sarah Sutton, who died in 1854, just before reaching Oregon's Willamette Valley; Sarah Maria Mousley, a Mormon woman traveling to Utah in 1857; and Martha Missouri Moore, who drove thousands of sheep from Missouri to California with her husband in 1860.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction to the Bison Books Edition
- Contents
- Editor’s Introduction
- A Travel Diary in 1854, by Sarah Sutton
- The Vermillion Wagon Train Diaries, 1854 by Anna Maria Godell and Elizabeth Austin
- From Utah to Texas in 1856, by Ellen Hundley
- Delaware to Utah, 1857, by Sarah Maria Mousley
- To Pike’S Peak and New Mexico, 1858, by Julia Anna Archibald [Holmes]
- From Ashtabula to Petaluma in 1859, by Harriet Booth Griswold
- A Salt Lake City StopOver, July 1859, by Hannah Keziah Clapp
- The Trip to California, 1860, by Martha Missouri Moore
- Illustrations
- Index
- Back Cover