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The stories seem simpleâ??they left, they traveled, they settledâ??yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and aspirations of a young nation. In this concluding volume of the Covered Wagon Women series, we see the final animal-powered overland migrations that were even then yielding to railroad travel and, in a few short years, to the automobile. The diaries and letters resonate with the vigor and spirit that made possible the settling and community-building of the American West… (mais)
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[Introduction to the Bison Books Edition] To stop by a drugstore to pick up peppermint lozenges is a common-place errand--as familiar to readers today perhaps as it was to a woman named Huldah, who bought some of the flavored drops more than a century ago.
[Introduction to Volume XI] In this eleventh and final volume of Covered Wagon Women/i>, we bring to conclusion a long and happy journey during which we have shared the overland trails with a wide variety of westering women.
In southern Nebraska, near the eastern edge of Lincoln County south of the Platte River, is the Peckham Precinct, settled by members of an 1879 wagon train from Wisconsin.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua lÃngua.
[Introduction to the Bison Books Edition] As you travel across the late-nineteenth-century West with these diarists as you guides, bring your expectations along, but be prepared for some surprises.
[Introduction to Volume XI] Thus the women tell their own story, just as it was happening, or immediately afterwards. "Immediacy" is the key word. These are primary documents of the first order. No fond recollections written years later can compare
The stories seem simpleâ??they left, they traveled, they settledâ??yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and aspirations of a young nation. In this concluding volume of the Covered Wagon Women series, we see the final animal-powered overland migrations that were even then yielding to railroad travel and, in a few short years, to the automobile. The diaries and letters resonate with the vigor and spirit that made possible the settling and community-building of the American West
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