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Quinn, "The Modest Seduction:The Experience of Pioneer o men on
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the Trans-Mississippi Frontier" (Ph.D. diss., University of California,
Riverside, 1977), I-iii, 8-9, I I , 15, 1 8 , 23, 30, 39, 45-50.
3. Sarah White Smith, "Diary," in First White W o men over the Rockies: Diaries,
Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission Who
Made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838, ed. Clifford Drury; vol. 3
(Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1966), 87.
4. Annie D. Tallent, T h e First White Woman in the Black Hills (Mitchell, S.D.:
Educator Supply Co., 1923) 4 7 .
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5 . Louisa Miller Rahm, "Diary" (1862), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.
6. Margaret A. Frink,Journal of the Adventures of a Party of California Gold­
Seekers (Oakland, Calif.: N.p., 8 97), 29-30.
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7. Agnes Morley Cleaveland, No Life f o r a Lady (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1977).
8. Ruth B. Moynihan, "Children andYoung People on the Overland Trail,"
ffistern Historical Quarterly 6 Quly 1975): 286.
9. Polly Jane Purcell, "Autobiography and Reminiscence of a Pioneer," Graff
Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.
10. Martha M. Morgan, A Trip across the Plains in the Year 1849 (San Francisco:
Pioneer Press, 1864), 7.
I I . Catherine M. Haun, "A Woman's Trip across the Plains" (1849),
Huntington Library; San Marino. Calif.; Susan M. Cranston, "Daily
Journal" (1851), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.; and Frances H. Sawyer,
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"Overland to California" (18 2 ), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.
12. Pauline W o nderly, Reminiscences of a Pioneer (Placerville, Calif.: El Dorado
County Historical Society, 1965), 3-4.
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13. Elizabeth]. Goltra, "Journal" 1 8 53), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.
14. Ada Millington, "Journal Kept while Crossing the Plains" (1862), Bancroft
Library, Berkeley , Calif.
15. Ada Adelaide Vogdes, "Journal" (1866-1872), Huntington Library, San
Marino, Calif. Other women's views are fo und in Sherry L. Smith,
"Officers' Wives, Indians and the Indian W a rs," Order of the Indian W a rs
Journal I (winter 1980): 35-46.
16. Mary E H. Sandfo rd, "A Trip across the Plains" (1853), California State
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Library, Sacramento; and a rd G. DeWitt and Florence S. DeWitt, Prairie
Schooner Lady: The Journal of Harriet Sherrill JiVtzrd, 1853 (Los Angeles:
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W e sternlore Press, 1959 , 39-46.
17. Mrs. Nicholas H. Karchner, "Diary" (1862), California State Library,
Sacramento.
1 8 . Mary Eliza W a rner, "Diary" (1864), Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.
19. Mary Jane Caples, "Overland Journey to California" (19II), California
State Library, Sacramento.

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