The diaries and letters of Women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West.
Others bear the marks of crude.
Some were written with the skilled pens of educated women.
They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland experience.
These eight firsthand accounts are among the Best ever written.
The diaries and letters of Women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West