02284cam a2200325 4500 353892895 TxAuBib 20180101120000.0 920930s1992||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780805210040 pbk. $14.00 0805210040 pbk. $14.00 (OCoLC)26700275 TxAuBib Women's diaries of the westward journey / [collected by] Lillian Schlissel ; preface by Carl N. Degler. Expanded [ed. New York : Schocken Books, 1992. viii, 278 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Studies in the life of women This edition has a new introduction by the author. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-265) and index. More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally central to an accurate picture of what life was 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 middle of a wilderness that was a far cry from the homes they had left back east. Still (and often under the disapproving eyes of their husbands) they found time to write brave letters home or to jot a few weary lines at night into the diaries that continue to enthrall us. 20180101. Overland journeys to the Pacific Sources. Women West (U.S) History 19th century Sources. West (U.S) History 1848-1860 Sources. West (U.S) History 1860-1890 Sources. West (U.S) History 1890-1945 Sources. Schlissel, Lillian. Studies in the life of women.