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English
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Sesquicentennial Reflections : A Comparative View of Mormon and Gentile Women on the Westward Trail
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 1998
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24
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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28-53
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The mid-1840s proved to be heart-wrenching and life-altering for women who turned their faces toward the American West. During the 1840s, as well as the succeeding decade, thousands of women undertook westward migration, some with certainty, others with misgiving. Whether hopeful or hesitant, illiterate or educated, single or married, native-born or from Canada or a European nation, women experienced many comparable—as well as some vastly diverse—circumstances on the westward trek.
The similarities and differences between early Mormon and Gentile trail women will be explored here, including how Mormon women on the trail coped with their additional burdens. The essay maintains that these two groups of women experienced the westward migration in strikingly dissimilar ways.
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