Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail - Softcover

Butruille, Susan G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941890261 ISBN 13: 9781941890264

Publisher: Northwest Corner Books, 2018

Synopsis

In Women’s Voices from the Oregon Trail, Susan Butruille artfully narrates the lives and struggles of the women who followed the 2,000-mile trail to Oregon 175 years ago. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition not only retraces the women’s journeys, but also brings their narratives to life in diary, song, history, poetry, quilts, and recipes. Beginning with the Midwestern farms where most of the women were from—and where so many started their journey by squeezing their families’ lives into the tiny space inside a covered wagon—Susan follows their trek step by step. These women toiled across unforgiving landscapes, braving dangerous rivers and mountain passes, prairie storms and disease, to reach the strange and bountiful land where a new home was supposed to await. The author herself retraces this trail as it is today in Guide to Women’s History Along the Oregon Trail, documenting where to find the markers, signposts, landmarks, and historical sites that still show the lasting impact of the brave women who uprooted their lives to heed the call of Oregon Fever.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan G. Butruille's writing career began with a fishing column in Alaska. Following the Oregon Trail book, she wrote Women's Voices from the Western Frontier, and Women's Voices from the Mother Lode: Tales from the California Gold Rush, plus articles, histories, film scripts, and Recipe For Justice: The Readers Theatre Suffrage Play. The author has taken her dramatic-musical presentations, workshops, and speeches from the Oregon Trail to Washington, D.C. to France. She wrote the script for the film Bound For Oregon, featured at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Oregon City, and cofounded the annual Dangerous Women productions in Leavenworth, Washington.

Review:

"Finely crafted, clean, engaging."

--Lillian Schlissel, Professor Emerita, American Studies at Brooklyn College and author of Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

"A grand book. It touches me, and I can't think of anything else that approaches it in its vivid picture of life on the trail."

--William Bullard, Former administrator of the National Frontier Trails Center in Independence, Missouri, and author of Bound for the Promised Land

"Womens Voices from the Oregon Trail is my go-to book for capturing the emotion of women's stories as they crossed the continent. It's the authentic account of life, loss and hope that marks that journey, and is history as it should be written: as deeply moving story."

--Jane Kirkpatrick, NY Times bestselling author of All She Left Behind

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwest Corner Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1941890261
• ISBN 13: 9781941890264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276