Alice B. reviewed on 10/18/2019 + 3563 more book reviews

This is an excellent historical book of women's letters and diaries of women who crossed the Great Plains to go west from 1840-1849. Some were uneducated and others school teachers.Each had many trials and different experiences trailing across the Great Plains to go west. Many encountered Indians, Buffalo, disease or death of themselves or their loved ones. Many encountered starvation and rough trail conditions but most were happy with their new homes in the west. One was a midwife who delivered babies and never mentioned her husband in her diary.She said if there was a wheel to change or hard work to do she did it herself.

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