Covered wagon women : diaries and letters from the western trails. Volume 3, 1851 /
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 west⁰́₄about 2,160 men and 1,440 women⁰́₄tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal la...
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Lincoln :
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