Walking west

By Noëlle Sickels

Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Women pioneers, West (u.s.), fiction, Fiction, westerns

Description: In 1852 a band of farmers from Indiana begin a trip in a wagon train to California. Among them is Alice Muller, a reluctant traveller forced to leave home by her husband's dreams of a better life. It is she who chronicles the journey's hardships, in the course of which she becomes the leader.