© 1989 by Kenneth L. Holmes. Reprinted by arrangement with the Arthur H. Clark Company.

Introduction to the Bison Books Edition © 1999 by the University of Nebraska Press
All rights reserved

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 die 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 0-8032-7277-4 (pa: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7692-5 (electronic: e-pub)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7693-2 (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 Lilian 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)

Reprinted from volume eight (1989) of the original eleven-volume edition titled Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840–1890, published by The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California. The pagination has not been changed and no material has been omitted in this Bison Books edition.

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