Frontier women microfilm set, 1849-1913, [microform].

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Frontier women microfilm set, 1849-1913, [microform].

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Women's diaries, correspondence, and related papers. Written by women who were early settlers in California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Includes accounts of the westward journey and of life on the frontier. Includes: Mary Burrell's Book (WA MSS 58), Julia R. Collins Letters (WA MSS S-1268), Sarah Green Davis: Diary of an Overland Journey to California (WA MSS S-1320 D298), Lucy H. Fosdick: Across the Plains in '61 (WA MSS S-1410 F786), Celinda E. Hines: Overland Journey (WA MSS 424), Maria R. Hodgdon: Journal of a Voyage from Boston to San Francisco (WA MSS S-1425), Jennie T. Kimball: Diary of a Trip to California (WA MSS S-1683), Almira Markell Papers (WA MSS S-1660), Martha Missouri Bishop Moore: Journal of a Trip to California (WA MSS S-1438), Mary Rockwood Powers: The Overland Route, Leaves from the Journal of a California Emigrant (WA MSS 387), Louisa Cook Walters Papers (WA MSS S-1656), and Lillie I. Wells: My Journey to California (WA MSS S-1669 W4621).

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Hines, Celinda Elvira, 1826-1905

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Hines, with her parents and extended family, emigrated to Oregon in 1853. She later taught at Mrs. Kingley's Academy in Portland, attended singing school, and married one of the teachers, H. R. Shipley. From the description of Overland journey from Hastings, Oswego County, New York, to Portland, Oregon /by Celinda E. Hines, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702126366 ...

Kimball, Jennie, 1848-1896

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Walters, Louisa Cook, d. 1865.

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Louisa Cook, a schoolteacher, moved from Ohio in 1862 with her daughter Mary and her aunt and uncle, first to Fort Walla Walla in the Washington Territory and then to Placerville in the Idaho Territory in 1863. In 1864 she married D.M. Walters. Louisa died of pneumonia in 1865. From the description of Louisa Cook Walters papers, 1852-1891 (bulk 1852-1866). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702137431 ...

Davis, Sarah Green.

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Hodgdon, Maria R.

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Wells, Lillie I.

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Powers, Mary Rockwood, -1858

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Powers married Dr. Americus Windsor Powers, settled near Palmyra, Wisconsin, and in 1856 emigrated to San Leandro, California. From the description of The overland route, leaves from the journal of a California emigrant /by Mary L. Rockwood Powers, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702126347 ...

Fosdick, Lucy H.

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Fosdick and her family moved to Colorado City (1861) when she was a child, settled there for two years, and in 1864 moved to Booneville, Colo. From the description of Papers, 1911. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007291 ...

Markell, Almira.

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Almira Markell, a schoolteacher, moved to Aberdeen in the Dakota Territory in 1882 at the urging of her friend, Lorette Bliss. She began homesteading in Edmunds, 32 miles from Aberdeen and also took out a timber claim. Markell returned home to Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 1884 and did not return to the Dakota Territory. Lorette Bliss moved with her husband, C.A. Bliss, from Minneapolis to Aberdeen in the Dakota Territory in 1881. There C.A. Bliss became a successful ...

Burrell, Mary, 1835-

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Mary, the widow of George Burrell, was from Plainfield, Illinois. She later married Wesley Tonner. From the description of Mary Burrell's book / by Mary Burrell, 1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702125750 ...

Collins, Julia C., -1865

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Moore, Martha Missouri Bishop, 1837-1858.

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Martha Missouri Bishop Moore, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Frances Brown Bishop, was born in Benton County, Missouri and died in Red Bluff, California. She married James Preston Moore in 1858 and two years later traveled overland with her husband and members of her family to California where they settled. Frances Bishop Sweaney, Martha's niece, transcribed Martha's journal and tried in the 1930s to retrace by car her aunt's 1860 wagon trip. From the descr...