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Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey
Far from Home Families of the Westward Journey
Author: Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, Elizabeth Hampsten
Using excerpts from diaries, letters, and reminiscences, this study focuses on the experiences of three families who sought new lives in the nineteenth-century American West. — One of the enduring myths of the Westward movement is the happy ending: families that survived the arduous journey found a rewarding new life despite hardships. The author...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805240528
ISBN-10: 0805240527
Publication Date: 3/18/1989
Pages: 264
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Publisher: Schocken
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Far from Home offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of three families on the Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico and North dakota frontiers. The trials, deprivations and hardships they endured surely takes away all the "romantic notions" that we have about the early pioneers.
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This book has never been opened and is still in the original shrinkwrap.
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I've read this book several times over the years. It really speaks to me since my ancestors also traveled westward from various European countries. This is so much more real than reading dry, historical texts covering this time period.


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