The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of t

The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of w

Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.