Triumph And Tragedy Womens Voices From The Oregon Trail

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and Off the Wall Productions present the online supplement to "Triumph and Tragedy: Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail." The documentary program focuses on the lives of the women who followed the Oregon Trail to the western United States. The trail was a route taken by pioneers to get to the western United States, including what is now the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, and Utah.

The lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2,000-mile trail to Oregon 175 years ago narrated in their own words from diaries, songs, and recipes. This 25th anniversary edition includes an updated Guide to Women's History Along the Oregon Trail.

Tracing the trail and tracking down and writing about places of interest about women: landmarks, statues, signposts, markers, gravestones.

"An account of several families and individuals making the long and often dangerous trek across the United States from Missouri to the West Coast in the 1800s"--

A biography of Narcissa Whitman, a missionary who was killed, along with her husband and twelve others, by Native Americans along the Oregon Trail.

A workbook to provide exercises to teach students about the life of those who traveled on the Oregon Trail.

The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record, with numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman.

Pioneers -- Northwest, women pioneers.

It Happened on the Oregon Trail 2 takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Oregon Trail's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.

Women's Voices from the Western Frontier continues the evocative tone of the author's previous book, Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail. Sweeping yet intimate, Susan G. Butruille's book gives voice to the women of the many western frontiers through their journals, stories, songs & recipes. Here are strung-together moments of everydayness, punctuated by a Pueblo woman's corn grinding song, a Hispanic wedding feast & horseback rides across the prairie, hair flying free.