The personal diaries of women crossing America in covered wagons told of the ingenuity, courage, bravery , loneliness, fear, boredom, excitement and danger they encountered. They were called "overlanders." Margaret Frink's diary was a great discovery describing her observations of the choldra epidemic, the social encounters with the Indians who followed the wagons and the cost of provisions along the way. It is three hours of adventure told by actress Susan Baxter.
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I thought you would like to know that your audio book, Margaret A. Frink diary from COVERED WAGON WOMEN, was chosen to be a "staff pick of the month," by our assistant manager. I think your series, "Living Voices of the Past," is a great idea and I wish you luck with it. -- Borders Books and Music
It's incredible. Every American should listen to this. My children,ages 7, 11, and 15 loved it. -- A customer,Mr. D.W. McPheeters
This is a thoroughly charming narrative, refreshing for its attitude of confidence and lack of desperation. Margaret Frink is literate, observant and childless. The Frinks were cautious people who planned ahead and while they did their share of helping others, they were remarkably self-sufficient. Frink was a successful Indiana businessman. His wife was in every way his respected partner. If she had to stand in the rain for two hours and hold the horses, that's what she did. An accomplished horsewoman, she rode a great deal of the way. She was a disciplined diarist. Her information sounds dependable, her enthusiasm for the journey unfailing. The tape is read by Susan Baxter who portrays Frink, as a combination of self-satisfied and spunky. -- The Arizona Daily Star
It's incredible. Every American should listen to this. My children,ages 7, 11, and 15 loved it. -- A customer,Mr. D.W. McPheeters
This is a thoroughly charming narrative, refreshing for its attitude of confidence and lack of desperation. Margaret Frink is literate, observant and childless. The Frinks were cautious people who planned ahead and while they did their share of helping others, they were remarkably self-sufficient. Frink was a successful Indiana businessman. His wife was in every way his respected partner. If she had to stand in the rain for two hours and hold the horses, that's what she did. An accomplished horsewoman, she rode a great deal of the way. She was a disciplined diarist. Her information sounds dependable, her enthusiasm for the journey unfailing. The tape is read by Susan Baxter who portrays Frink, as a combination of self-satisfied and spunky. -- The Arizona Daily Star
About the Author
Beverly Van Horn is married, has three grown children and eight grandchildren. She was a journalist 30 years, having founded two weekly newspapers in Colorado; started an Indian gallery and boutique in Colorado and Tucson, which she sold after 14 years; and is now now producing womens diaries of the 1800's on audio cassettes.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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A must read for anyone interested in history,
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This review is from: Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 (Coverd Wagon Women) (Paperback)
The second in the series is as interesting as the first.The immigrants now have a bit more knowledge as many have gone before them.There are still many misshaps, disease, lack of water and feed. We now are starting to see many oppertunists who prey on the people. It is interesting to note that the women and Indians seemed to get along quite well and shared hints about many things. We also see the diffrence in the trip for diffrent income levels.This is also where we start to see pollution,as the animals were allowed in the creeks and anything not needed was just left .These books show what life was really like on the trail and what the women went through each day.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 (Coverd Wagon Women) (Paperback)
Meaningful, first-hand chronicles from six westward women pioneers of 1850.As editor Dr. Holmes notes, Anna Maria Morris was the wife of a military commander and as a result was "treated with attention and care". Nonetheless, she describes the relentless heat, lack of water and wood, poor grass, etc. which was typical of travel to Santa Fe, along with daily routines. Mary Colby, Margaret Frink, Sarah Davis, Sophia Goodridge and Lucena Parsons all traveled the northern ,more familiar, Oregon Trail. These women give stunning details of wagon travel including: the phenomenal numbers of graves along the trail due to cholera, daily chores and mishaps, the vast numbers of emigrants along the route, dry ponds, abandoned wagons and personal belongings, river crossings, cutting grass for future livestock feed, etc. We feel the persistent, annoying stings of clouds of mosquitoes along the Platte, the disturbing sights of countless numbers of human graves, the unsettling smells of innumerable dead livestock left alongside the road, feel their Indian anxieties, the sounds of nerve-racking horrendous thunderstorms, the continual unwelcomed taste of trail dust. These women clearly illustrate what life was like traveling westward in 1850. A pleasure to read.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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The Great Journey,
This review is from: Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 (Coverd Wagon Women) (Paperback)
My great-great grandparents with an infant daughter journeyed overland from Missouri to California in 1850 and I read this book to learn something of their experience.As the editors point out few women made the crossing by land and thus their accounts have great significance. This book contains the diaries and letters of six women who traveled by wagon and horseback across the Great Plains and the mountains of the West to a new home in California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico in 1850. Amongst their descriptions of terror and hardship are also homely tales of life on the trail and often the generosity and nobility of many of their fellows. I was impressed most by the sheer numbers of the overlanders. Some 50,000 people took the Western trails in 1850, drawn mostly by the promise of gold in California. Accounts of the dust, the crowded conditions, and the inevitable cholera caught my attention. The journey across the plains and mountains was, as the editors note, the longest voluntary migration in history and one has to wonder why so many people left comfortable homes to journey west. The westward urge -- "Manifest Destiny" -- or whatever it might be called was a powerful force in 19th century United States. Indians and buffalo play surprisingly small roles in the accounts of the crossing. They were perhaps wise enough to keep their distance from the overlanders. The editors have contributed good introductions to the book and each of the women. Smallchief
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