Ho for California! : women's overland diaries from the Huntington Library / edited & annotated by Sandra L. Myres.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Other Authors: Myres, Sandra L.
Language:English
Published: San Marino : Huntington Library, [1980], ©1980.
Series:Huntington classics.
Subjects:
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Voyages to the Pacific coast.
Women > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Sources.
American diaries > Women authors.
West (U.S.) > History > 1848-1860 > Sources.
Genre:
Biography.
Sources.
Physical Description:xv, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Isthmus of Panama, 1849
  • A diary kept by Mrs. Jane McDougal
  • The California trail, 1850-1959
  • A journal of Mary Stuart Bailey, 1852
  • Helen Carpenter, a trip across the plains in an ox cart, 1857
  • The Southwestern trails, 1869-1870
  • Harriet Bunyard, diary of a young girl, 1869-- Mrs. Maria Shrode, journal, 1870.