Days on the Road is an autobiographical account of a young woman who traveled over the Great Plains toward the Rocky Mountains by wagon train with her mother and two younger brothers. Barely a month after...

Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and headed west alongside the wagon carrying her mother and...

Le journal de voyage (mai-sept. 1865), jusqu’alors inédit en français, d’une institutrice de vingt-quatre ans partie du Missouri dans un convoi de chariots avec sa mère et ses frères pour se construire...