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011: Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903

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The stories seem easy—they left, they traveled, they settled—yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the vital enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the ladies in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the best possible ideals and aspirations of a young nation. On this concluding volume of the Covered Wagon Women series, we see the overall animal-powered overland migrations that were even then yielding to railroad commute and, in a couple of short years, to the car. The diaries and letters resonate with the vigor and spirit that made imaginable the settling and community-building of the American West.

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