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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
Covered Wagon Women Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1850 Author:Kenneth L. Holmes (Editor) The personal diaries of women crossing America in covered wagons told of the ingenuity, courage, bravery , loneliness, fear, boredom, excitement and danger they encountered. They were called "overlanders." Margaret Frink's diary was a great discovery describing her observations of the choldra epidemic, the social encounters with th... more »e Indians who followed the wagons and the cost of provisions along the way.« less