Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail

25th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword

Includes Revised Guide to Women's History Along the Oregon Trail

by Susan G. Butruille

The lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2,000-mile trail to Oregon 175 years ago narrated in women's stories, diaries, songs, and recipes.

Northwest Corner Books HIS036040; HIS036110
5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 274, Number of illustrations: 128
Women's History, Western History
ISBN-10: 1941890261 (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781941890264 (Ebook)
Price: $21.95

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Readers say:

"Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail is my go-to book for capturing the emotion of women's stories as they crossed the continent. It's the authentic account of life, loss and hope that marks that journey, and is history as it should be written: as deeply moving story." -Jane Kirkpatrick, NY Times bestselling author of All She Left Behind

"Finely crafted, clean, engaging." -Lillian Schlissel, Professor Emerita, American Studies at Brooklyn College and author of Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

"A grand book. It touches me, and I can't think of anything else that approaches it in its vivid picture of life on the trail." -William Bullard, Former Administrator of the National Frontier Trails Center in Independence, Missouri, and author of Bound for the Promised Land

Description:

In Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail, Susan Butruille artfully narrates the lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2,000-mile trail to Oregon 175 years ago. This 25th Anniversary Edition not only retraces the women's journeys, but also brings their narratives to life in diary, song, history, poetry, quilts, and recipes. Beginning with the Midwestern farms where most of the women were from-and where so many started their journey by squeezing their families' lives into the tiny space inside a covered wagon --Susan follows their daring and dangerous trek to a strange new land.

These women toiled across unforgiving landscapes, braving perilous rivers and mountain passes, prairie storms and disease, to reach the strange and bountiful land where a new home was supposed to await. The author herself retraces this trail as it is today in the "Guide to Women's History Along the Oregon Trail," documenting where to find the markers, signposts, landmarks, and historical sites that show traces of women's historical presence along the trail.

Susan's Other Books:

Women's Voices from the Western Frontier Gives voice to the women of the many western frontiers, including indigenous communities, through their diaries, stories, songs and recipes. An Oregon Book Awards finalist in literary nonfiction. Available on Amazon.

Women's Voices From The Mother Lode: Tales from the California Gold Rush Brings alive the drama, tragedy, poignancy and carnival hilarity of the California mining frontier. Available on Amazon.

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