First published more than a century ago, this journal of a woman's life and travels in post-Civil War California and the Northwest is one of the first female accounts of the region.
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This is another installation in the pioneer woman genre. Leighton left New York for San Francisco in 1865 and continued her travels throughout California and the Pacific Northwest for the next 14 years. She explored many places and witnessed many sights that no white woman had yet experienced.
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An excellent book for anyone interested in history, travel, women's studies, or the early settlement of the Pacific Northwest. Leighton writes with a accessible, personable style, and makes wonderful non-judgemental observations about the wide range of people she meets. Her sketches of Native Americans and Chinese are particularly poignant and enlightened for her era. Leighton was unafraid of roughing it, and experienced some travel adventures that make thrilling reading.
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This book is beautifully written and provides a window into what it was like to be one of the early visitors to the Pacific Northwest.
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The Leightons' decision to travel out west by ship marked an ironic twist in the transportation revolution transforming the United States at the end of the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Puget Sound, Port Angeles, Santa Barbara, Columbia River, British Columbia, Port Townsend, Washington Territory, Fort Colville, Walla Walla, Straits of Fuca, Father Joseph, Admiralty Inlet, Cape Flattery, Ediz Hook, San Juan, Father Pedro, Hood's Canal, Lone Mountain, Port Madison, Cascade Mountains, Civil War, Crescent City, Far West, Mount Baker New!
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The Leightons' decision to travel out west by ship marked an ironic twist in the transportation revolution transforming the United States at the end of the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Puget Sound, Port Angeles, Santa Barbara, Columbia River, British Columbia, Port Townsend, Washington Territory, Fort Colville, Walla Walla, Straits of Fuca, Father Joseph, Admiralty Inlet, Cape Flattery, Ediz Hook, San Juan, Father Pedro, Hood's Canal, Lone Mountain, Port Madison, Cascade Mountains, Civil War, Crescent City, Far West, Mount Baker New!
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- Helen Hunt Jackson: Selected Colorado Writings by Helen Hunt Jackson on page 104, and page 138
- Among the Indians: Four Years on the Upper Missouri, 1858-1862 by Henry A. Boller on page 35
- The Jumping Frog and Other Stories by Mark Twain on page 2
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Running Press Miniature Editions) by Mark Twain on page 2
- The Oregon Trail by The Learning Company on page 87
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