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Title: Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel ISBN: 0-8052-1004-0 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 08 September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Comment: An excellent compilation of diaries of women traveling by covered wagons in the 1800s. Lillian Schlissel, the author, did extensive research, and, when possible, was able to give the reader information as to what happened to these women after their journies. The author was able to comment on the lack of personal details in the diaries by giving some history of "the culture of the times". What the women did share with us in their diaries was heartrending and I found myself brought to tears and full of gratitude for the comforts on my modern-day farm. A good read, and definitely worthy of keeping in the home library.
Rating: 2
Summary: Some women's diaries
Comment: The pleasure of the book is the diaries and it is too bad that more space isn't devoted to them. Ms Schlissel spends a great deal of time talking about the diaries and her comentary does not add much to the women's words.
She points out numerous times that women do not discuss about bodily functions and pregnancy/child birth in their diaries. She points out that the women feared death, counting graves and dead animals along the trail. Well, the diaries were written in the middle years of the 19th century. Once the point is raised we have no idea if this is unusual for women's diaries and letters in America or England? She makes no comparison; the simple repetition adds nothing.
Her discussions are interesting, but her assumptions occasionally run hard into fact. She continually talks about women and children riding in the wagons, actually women and children walked to save the draft animals. She obsesses, like the diaries about indians. The obsession is false. More people died from accidents and many more died from illness than from indian conflicts. Perhaps a little more research in the writings of Dale Morgan or other historians of the west and the Oregon Trail could have eliminated these and other errors.
The focus on women's diaries is valuable. The 4 histories and diaries in the appendices are a treat. However, there are other better discussions of the Oregon and California trail experience.
PS The Indian and French place names of Oregon Territory are often mis-pronounced by Jeanne Hopson in the Books on Tape version of the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: One of the best and entertainment history books that I have ever read. You cannot stop when you start reading this book. It also have a lot of pictures, so you can visualize what the author is talking about. We learn how it was difficult for women to travel West, so they can have a better future. Author did a lot of research to write this book. Author did a great job. I recommend you to read it.
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Title: Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier by Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith ISBN: 0806130547 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.05 |
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Title: Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Kenneth L. Holmes, Anne M. Butler ISBN: 0803272774 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart ISBN: 0395911516 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: PIONEER WOMEN by Joanna Stratton ISBN: 0671447483 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 17 September, 1982 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, Elizabeth Hampsten ISBN: 0803292953 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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