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Author Richards, Mary Haskin Parker, 1823-1860, author
Title Winter quarters : the 1846-1848 life writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards / edited by Maurine Carr Ward
Publisher Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1996
Descript. 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps



Series Life writings of frontier women ; 1
Life writings of frontier women ; 1
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-319) and index
Contents The Fabric of Life -- A Scribe for the Women -- "One of the Most beautyfull valeys" -- "Weept about an houre & ... felt some better" -- Sleeping on the "soft side of a bord" -- "Our tent was crowded all day with folks coming in" -- "These Hills are the Works of thy hands" -- 'Tis when I an Sick that I miss you the most" -- As "a steam Boat hove in sight" -- Bibliographical Register.
Summary "Mary Richard's journals and letters record a young woman's rare, but richly detailed view of life in the temporary Mormon pioneer communities in Iowa." -- Publisher's description
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Subject Richards, Mary Haskin Parker, 1823-1860
Women pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography
Mormon women -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography
Pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography
Mormon pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography
Missouri River Valley -- Biography
Add Author Ward, Maurine Carr, 1939- editor
Add.Class 978.02092
ISBN 0874213029
9780874213027
0585098484
9780585098487
OCLC ocm42856534
Record Link http://catalogue.londonmet.ac.uk/record=b1886651~S1



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