{"product_id":"covered-wagon-women-volume-1-diaries-and-letters-from-the-western-trails-1840-1849-paperback","title":"Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKenneth L. Holmes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnne M. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of 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; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenneth L. Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College. He edited and compiled \u003ci\u003eCovered Wagon Women, \u003c\/i\u003e drawing on archives and private sources. Anne M. Butler, a professor of history at Utah State University-Logan, is the author of \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 7.99 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52066199601453,"sku":"9780803272774","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/covered-wagon-women-volume-1-diaries-and-letters-from-the-western-trails-1840-1849-paperback-1174760.webp?v=1780167605","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/covered-wagon-women-volume-1-diaries-and-letters-from-the-western-trails-1840-1849-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}