COVERED WAGON WOMEN, VOLUME 1: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

A collection of the memoirs of westward bound women including Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; and Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Reprinted from the 1983 edition.