Hi Judy!
I have requested this from my library and expect to have it in my hands
within two weeks! Will be happy to scan it! My library has two versions of
this book, one with a 1992 copyright date, and one with a copyright date of
1982. I chose the newer date. Hope that's okay.
Mayrie
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I will be glad to proofread "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" by
Lillian Schlissel if someone can scan it.
It's a terrific non-fiction book for young adults (for readers 12 and
older). The author paints a vivid portrait of what it was like for women to
travel west between 1840 and 1870, doing so by presenting extensive
selections from actual diaries women kept.
Here's an excerpt from a review of it: "for the married women, particularly
those with young children, the trip was fraught with danger and fear.
Children could fall under wagon wheels or be left behind in the confusion of
traveling with as many as one hundred other wagons. There were buffalo
stampedes, Indian attacks, snakebites, dysentery, starvation, and cholera -
many women note individual graves, sometimes one per mile. In addition, one
of every five women was pregnant when the journey began or became so in the
course of a trip that guidebooks said would take three to four months, but
often took six to eight.
Through Lillian Schlissel's fascinating and extremely readable account, we
gain a fuller understanding of the journey few of these women wanted to
take."
There are multiple editions; here's the info on the most recent:
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken (July 6, 2004)
ISBN-10: 0805211764
ISBN-13: 978-0805211764
Judy s.
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