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 that awarded a husband and wife a
full section.
Volume 3 of "Covered Wagon Women" contains the diaries and
letters of six Oregon-bound women, as well as the journal of an
English Mormon woman who described her experience all the way from
Liverpool to Salt Lake City. The words of these pioneer women
convey their exhilaration, courage, exhaustion, and terror in
traveling so far into the unknown.
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