Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

Part of a three-book series, this book covers the lives of Tamsen Donner and Virginia Reed describing their lives as part of the infamous Donner party that travelled west in a wagon train.  The book also includes midwife Patty Sessions and Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her daughter while travelling west.