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Self-Published. New with No dust jacket as issued. N.D.. First Edition. Hardcover. 154 pages .

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. New. 1997. Soft Cover. Index. . 320 pages. (Covered Wagon Women Ser. , Vol. 5) . 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… Read More

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with title in gilt (somewhat faded) on spine in a matching slipcase with some edgewear ; street map on endpages . 792 pages .