{"product_id":"covered-wagon-women-volume-1-9780803272774","title":"Covered Wagon Women Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes voices of women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s including Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; and, Rachel Fisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The diaries and letters . . . throb with excitement, pain, and mind-boggling determination.”—\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An outstanding collection of primary sources written by women moving west.”—\u003ci\u003eWagon Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kenneth L. Holmes made the very wise editorial decision not to update, revise, or parenthetically correct the quirky and often fascinating prose of these nineteenth-century women. . . . The writing is rich with the sounds of common speech and jargon . . . and it should be a gold mine for students of everyday life.”—John Mack Faragher, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCovered Wagon Women\u003c\/i\u003e is to be valued. . . . First, it brings together in a single edition a major collection of the diaries of overland women. . . . Second, this is probably the most perfectly documented edition a researcher will find.”—Lillian Schlissel, \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405273047383,"sku":"9780803272774","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803272774.jpg?v=1730489379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/covered-wagon-women-volume-1-9780803272774","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}