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Wives, Mothers, Daughters:
Women's life on the road West

Annals of Wyoming 42:2:191-224
By Robert L. Munkres
Women's life on the emigrant trail required many skills and strengths characteristic of women of that time; whether they were "in the States" or on the emigrant roads. This article details, via quotes from diaries, many of those areas that required a woman's frontier spirit. SKETCH: By C. Hall - Crossing the Barriers - Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.

SKETCH: By C. Hall - Crossing the Barriers - Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.

Among the areas are: 1) sickness and health; 2) work, such as cooking, getting wood, and getting water; 3) accidents; 4) lost children and women; 5) storms; 6) Indians, and 7) death. There was "optimism and toughness. that characterized these 'First Ladies of the West.'"

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