Best of Covered Wagon Women: Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails John McCartney Texas is home to some

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Best of Covered Wagon Women: Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails John McCartney Texas is home to someThe diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between 1846 and 1898. Ranging in age from eleven to nineteen, unmarried and without children of their own, these diarists had experiences different from those of