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127. Mary E. Hopping, "Incidents of Pioneer Life as I Remember and as I
Have Been T o ld" (1962), California State Library, Sacramento.
I28. Porter, By Ox Team to California, 79.
129. W o nderly, Reminiscences, 4; and Hecox, California Caravan, 3 8 .
130. Vogdes, "Journal."
I3I . Ibid.
132. Glenda Riley, "Women in the e st,"Journal of American Culture 3 (summer
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1980 : 3 1 4- 8 .
133. Porter, y Ox Team to California, 26-27.
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134. DeWitt and DeWitt, Prairie Schooner Lady, 87, 123, 144, 158, 166.
135. Sandra L. Myres, "Romance and Reality of the American Frontier:Views
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of Army Wives," Western Historical Quarterly 13 (October 1982 : 414. Also
helpful are Clarity Adams Earley, One W o man� Army: A Black O ffi cer
Remembers the W A C (College Station:TexasA & M University Press, 1995);
and Anne Bruner Eales, Army Wives on the American Frontier: Living by the
Bugles (Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books, 1996).
136. Sandra L. Myres, "Army W o men's Narratives as Documents of Social
History: Some Examples f r om the Western Frontier, 1840-1900," New
Mexico Historical Review 65 (April 1990): 175-98; and Smith, "Officers'
Wives, Indians and the Indian W a rs," 42-43 . See also Patricia Y Stallard,
Glittering Misery: Dependents cifthe Indian FightingArmy (San Rafael, Calif.:
Presidio Press, 1978).
137. Quoted in Christiane Fischer, ed., Let Them S p eak f o r Themselves: ltOmen
in the American West, 1849-1900 (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Press, 1977),
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120- 1 .
138. Saunders, "Whitman Massacre"; Goltra, "Journal"; Kitturah Penton
Belknap, "Reminiscences" (1839), Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa
City; and Dunlap, "Journal."
139. Hecox, California Caravan, 29; Mary A. Jones, "Recollections" (1915),
Bancroft Library, Berkeley, Calif.; Porter, By Ox Team to California, 34;
Carpenter, "Diary"; De Witt and DeWitt, Prairie Schooner Lady, 77; Sexton,
Foster Family, 127; Virginia Reed Murphy, "Across the Plains in the
Donner Party (1846): A Personal Narrative of the Overland T r ip to
California," Century M a gazine 42 (July 1891): 414; Cooke, Covered W agon
Days, 30; and Frizzell, Across the Plains, 1 8 .
140. Cranston, "Daily Journal," and Fish, "Across the Plaines."
I4I . DeWitt and DeWitt, Prairie Schooner Lady, 139.
142. Lord, Reminiscences, 63.
143 . Waters, "Account of a T r ip," 69.
144. DeWitt and DeWitt, Prairie Schooner Lady, 127, 158.
145. Hanna, 'Journal."
146. W a lker, Hall Family, 28.