This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

Describes what it was like traveling on the Oregon Trail, including what travelers ate, wore, and saw along the route

A new American journey.

In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the rigors en route, trailside celebrations and tragedies, the scourge of cholera, and encounters with the Indians.

For use in schools and libraries only. Answers questions about what it was like to travel to the Oregon Territory by covered wagon, crossing rivers, mountains, and prairie.