Martha Gay Masterson
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Description
"Handwritten in pencil, on a school tablet, Martha's story is a remarkable account of life on the Western frontier between the 1850s and the turn of the century. She provides us with an authentic version of what an ordinary girl from a rural Missouri family experienced on her wagon trip West. She furnishes us an eye-witness glimpse of how pioneer women saw the beauty and bleakness of the frontier wilderness. And she gives an insight into how these...