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Highlights
- The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel.
- About the Author: Kenneth L. Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College.
- 272 Pages
- Social Science, Women's Studies
- Series Name: Covered Wagon Women
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About the Book
Originally published: Glendale, Calif.: A.H. Clark Co., 1983-1993.Book Synopsis
The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to obtain grain for their livestock and food for themselves. They also sped up the process of mail delivery to remote Western outposts. Tragically, the easing of overland travel coincided with renewed conflicts with the Cheyenne and other Plains Indians. The massacre of Black Kettle's people at Sand Creek instigated two years of bloody reprisals and counterreprisals. "Amid this turmoil and change, these daring women continued to build on the example set by earlier women pioneers. As Harriet Loughary wrote upon her arrival in California, "[after] two thousands of miles in an ox team, making an average of eighteen miles a day enduring privations and dangers . . . When we think of the earliest pioneers . . . we feel an untold gratitude towards them."Review Quotes
"An outstanding collection of primary sources written by women moving west."--Wagon Tracks
"The diaries and letters . . . throb with excitement, pain and mind-boggling determination."--Kliatt
"This is a work to capture the heart as well as the historical mind. . . . Well worth reading."--Journal of the West
About the Author
Kenneth L. Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College. He edited and compiled Covered Wagon Women, drawing on archives and private sources. Introducing this Bison Books edition is Maria Montoya, an assistant professor of history and an assistant professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan.Dimensions (Overall): 7.95 Inches (H) x 6.64 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: .68 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Series Title: Covered Wagon Women
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Women's Studies
Publisher: Bison Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Maria Montoya
Language: English
Street Date: April 1, 1999
TCIN: 88973372
UPC: 9780803272972
Item Number (DPCI): 247-56-4963
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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