Maria Montoya

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8

Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865

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The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to obtain grain for their livestock and food for themselves. They also sped up the process of mail delivery to remote Western outposts. Tragically, the easing of overland travel coincided with renewed conflicts with the Cheyenne and other Plains Indians. The massacre of Black Kettle's people at Sand Creek instigated two years of bloody reprisals and counterreprisals. Amid this turmoil and change, these daring women continued to build on the example se… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8032-7297-2
EAN: 9780803272972
Produktnummer: 9113728
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H20.2 cm x B16.9 cm x D1.6 cm 318 g
Abbildungen: Illus
Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor

Kenneth L. Holmes was a professor of history at Western Oregon State College. He edited and compiled Covered Wagon Women, drawing on archives and private sources. Introducing this Bison Books edition is Maria Montoya, an assistant professor of history and an assistant professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan.