Covered Wagon Women Vol. 5

Covered Wagon Women Vol. 5

This volume includes the equally vivid diaries of other women who rode the wagons in 1852. Polly Coon of Wisconsin recalls trading with Indians. Martha Read, starting from Illinoise, is particularly alert to the suffering of animals, noting hundreds of dead cows and horses along the way6. Cecilia Adams and Pathenia Blank, twins sisters from Illinoise, jointly chronocle their once-in-a-lifetime experience.