Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860 by

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 7: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860

Covered Wagon Women

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Some of the women traveling west in the late 1850s were strong advocates of equal rights for their sex. On the trail, Julia Archibald Holmes and Hannah Keziah Clapp sensibly wore the "freedom costume" called bloomers. In 1858 Holmes joined the Pik...

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