SOURCE: "Women's Diaries on the Western Frontier," in American Studies, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Spring, 1977, pp. 87-100.
In the following essay, Schlissel discusses the usefulness of diaries in the study of the impact of Western migration on nineteenth-century women.
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