© 1987 by Kenneth L. Holmes. Reprinted by arrangement with the Arthur H. Clark Company.
Introduction to the Bison Books Edition © 1998 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 0-8032-7277-4 (pa: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7690-1 (electronic: e-pub)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-7691-8 (electronic: e-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)
Reprinted from volume seven (1987) 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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