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Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey

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More than a quarter of 1,000,000 Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in probably the most greatest migrations of up to date times. The frontiersmen have transform an integral a part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally central to an accurate picture of what life used to be like on the frontier.

Through the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of women who participated in this migration, Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey gives us primary source material on the lives of these women, who kept campfires burning with buffalo chips and dried weeds, gave birth to and cared for children along primitive and dangerous roads, drove teams of oxen, picked berries, milked cows, and cooked meals in the midst of a wilderness that used to be a far cry from the homes they had left back east. Still (and ceaselessly under the disapproving eyes of their husbands) they found time to write brave letters home or to jot a couple of weary lines at night into the diaries that continue to enthrall us.

In her new foreword, Professor Mary Clearman Blew explores the enduring fascination with this subject among both historians and most people, and places Schlissel’s groundbreaking work into an intriguing historical and cultural context.

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