Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851 by

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851

Covered Wagon Women

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The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west--about 2,160 men and 1,440 women--tended toward Oregon's rich...

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