This book is a work of fiction.
Names, characters, places, and incidents either are productsof the author’s imagination or are used in a fictional setting. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

© 1993 by Kenneth L. Holmes. Reprinted by arrangement with the Arthur H. Clark Company. Introduction to the Bison Books Edition © 2000 by the University of Nebraska Press Emigrant Routes to the West map © 2000 by the University of Nebraska Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Library of Congress has cataloged Vol. 1 as:

Covered wagon women: diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840–1849 / edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Anne M. Butler.

p. cm.

Originally published: Glendale, Calif: A. H. Clark Co., 1983.

“Reprinted from volume one… of the original eleven-volume edition”—

T.p. verso.

“Volume 1.”

Includes index.

ISBN-10: 0-8032-7277-4 (pa: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7481-5 (electronic: e-pub)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7482-2 (electronic: mobi)

1. Women pioneers—West(U.S.)—Biography. 2. West(U.S.)—History. 3. West (U.S.)—Biography. 4. Overland journeys to the Pacific. 5. Frontier and pioneer life— West (U.S.) I. Holmes, Kenneth L.

F591.C79  1996    978-dc20    95-21200  CIP

Volume 2 introduction by Lillian Schlissel

ISBN 0-8032-7274-X (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 3 introduction by Susan Armitage

ISBN 0-8032-7287-1 (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 4 introduction by Glenda Riley

ISBN 0-8032-7291-X (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 5 introduction by Ruth B. Moynihan

ISBN 0-8032-7294-4 (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 6 introduction by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith

ISBN 0-8032-7295-2 (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 7 introduction by Shirley A. Leckie

ISBN 0-8032-7296-0 (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 8 introduction by Maria E. Montoya

ISBN 0-8032-7297-9 (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 9 introduction by Sherry L. Smith

ISBN 0-8032-7298-7 (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 10 introduction by Elliott West

ISBN 0-8032-7299-5 (pa: alk. paper)

Volume 11 introduction by Katherine G. Morrissey

ISBN 0-8032-7300-2 (pa: alk. paper)

The pagination has not been changed and no material has been omitted in this Bison Books edition.

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