Kenneth J Holmes

Covered Wagon Women 5: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852 : The Oregon Trail (Covered Wagon Women)

Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying to climb Independence Rock. She meets her futu...

Covered Wagon Women 6: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854 (Covered Wagon Women)

“We traveled this forenoon over the roughest and most desolate piece of ground that was ever made,” wrote Amelia Knight during her 1853 wagon train journey to Oregon. Some of the parties who traveled with Knight were propelled by religious motives. Hannah King, an Englishwoman and Mormon convert, wa...

Spread Spectrum Systems for GNSS and Wireless Communications (GNSS Technology and Applications)

Look to this cutting-edge resource for a modern treatment of spread spectrum (SS) communications, including direct sequence and frequency hopping. The book helps you understand the performance of SS systems under the influence of jamming and with and without coding. You find details on the synchroni...

Covered Wagon Women 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1851 (Covered Wagon Women Vol. 3)

The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west—about 2,160 men and 1,440 women—tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal land law th...

Covered Wagon Women 4: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails 1852 : The California Trail (Covered Wagon Women Vol. 4)

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 tragedi...

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 (Coverd Wagon Women)

The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Sal...

Best of Covered Wagon Women

The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray t...

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Sal...

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Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1851

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852 The Oregon Trail

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1853-1854

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1854-1860

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1864-1868