Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
10 best books like Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 (Kenneth L. Holmes): A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, No Life for a Lady, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, A Bride Goes West, Loving and Leaving the Good Life
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
| Author | Isabella Lucy Bird |
| ISBN | 0806113286 |
A cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had embarked upon a trip that called for as much stamina as would have been expected of an explorer or anthropologist — and she was neither! Possessing a prodigious amount of curiosity and a huge appetite...
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
| Author | Thomas L. Friedman |
| ISBN | 0374292795 |
A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most...
| Author | Agnes Morley Cleaveland |
| ISBN | 0803258682 |
I picked this book up in Wall Drug Store in South Dakota while on vacation. The author was born in 1874 in New Mexico before it was a state. Her memoir tells of life growing up on a cattle ranch back in the days of true cowboys. She tells what it was really like to live and work on a cattle ranch back then, when going...
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
| Author | Steven Levitsky |
| ISBN | 1524762938 |
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the...
| Author | Joan W. Blos |
| ISBN | 0689829914 |
I, Catherine Cabot Hall, aged 13 years, 6 months, 29 days…do begin this book.
So begins the journal of a girl coming of age in nineteenth-century New Hampshire. Catherine records both the hardships of pioneer life and its many triumphs. Even as she struggles with her mother’s death and...
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
| Author | Lillian Schlissel |
| ISBN | 0805211764 |
More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally...
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
| Author | Ani DiFranco |
| ISBN | 0735225176 |
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling,...
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
| Author | Daniel James Brown |
| ISBN | 0061348104 |
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows...
| Author | Nannie T. Alderson |
| ISBN | 0803250010 |
A Bride Goes West is new and fresh because it is impregnated with a just sense of values about life. When Nannie Tiffany of West Virginia married Walt Alderson, who'd already been on the cattle trail for years, in 1882, they went to Montana to start a little ranch. There's plenty about ranching in this book...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
| Author | Helen Nearing |
| ISBN | 0930031636 |
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice,...
