© 1983 by Kenneth L. Holmes. Reprinted by arrangement with the Arthur
H. Clark Company. Introduction to the Bison Books Edition © 1995 by the University of
Nebraska Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Covered wagon women: diaries & letters from the western trails, 1840-1849
/ edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes; introduction to the Bison
Books edition by Anne M. Butler.

p. cm.
Originally published: Glendale, Calif.: A. H. Clark Co., 1983.
"Reprinted from volume one . . . of the original eleven-volume edition"--
T.p. verso.
"Volume I."
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8032-7277-4 (pa: alk. paper)

1. Women pioneers--West ( U.S.)--Biography. 2. West ( U.S.)--His-
tory. 3. West ( U.S.)--Biography. 4. Overland journeys to the Pacific.
5. Frontier and pioneer life--West ( U.S.) 1. Holmes, Kenneth L.
F591.C79 1996
978--dc20
95-21200 CIP

Reprinted from volume one ( 1983) of the original eleven-volume edition
titled Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails,
1840-1890, published by the Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, Califor-
nia.

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