Comprehensive Index to Oregon Trail Diaries
Comprehensive Index to Oregon Trail Diaries

Author: Bert Webber

Publisher:

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9780936738543

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Contains index of every name found in the following six diaries: The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852; The Oregon Trail Diary of James Akin, Jr. in 1852; The Oregon & Applegate Trail Diary of Welborn Beeson in 1853; the Oregon & Overland Trail diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865; the Oregon & California Trail Diary of Jane Gould in 1862; The Oregon Trail Diary of Rev. Edward Evans Parrish in 1844.

From the Old Northwest to the Pacific Northwest
From the Old Northwest to the Pacific Northwest

Author: Patterson Fletcher Luark

Publisher: Oregon California Trails Assn

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780963590176

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The overland trail diaries written by brothers Patterson and Michael Luark during their journey from Illinois and Indiana to Oregon Territory in 1853 are presented in parallel format with extensive footnotes. The brothers' diaries complement each other well, and together they portray a full and rich description of their journey. Patterson traveled with his family, while Michael's remained in Indiana, adding the dimension of family to their narratives. Of particular interest to both trails enthusiasts and scholars, the brothers traveled some unusual trail routes, encountered special trail conditions, and described two significant emigrant registers kept that year.

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5

Author: Kenneth L. Holmes

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-08-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1496225589

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Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to climb Independence Rock. She meets her future husband, Benjamin Duniway, at the end of the Oregon Trail and, in the years to come, finds fame as a writer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the Northwest. Her grandson, David Duniway, edited her trail diary for Covered Wagon Women. This volume includes the equally vivid diaries of other women who rode the wagons in 1852. Polly Coon of Wisconsin recalls trading with the Indians. Martha Read, starting from Illinois, is particularly alert to the suffering of the animals, noting hundreds of dead cows and horses along the way. Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank, twin sisters from Illinois, jointly chronicle their once-in-a-lifetime experience.