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WESTWARD THE WOMEN is a book about women of every kind and sort, from nuns to prostitutes, who participated in the greatest American adventure-pioneering across the continent. Not only does the material represent half-forgotten history-which the author garnered from attics, libraries, state historical museums, and the reminiscences of Far Western Old-timers-but it is unique in presenting the woman's side of the story in this major American experience....
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Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt. The new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In 1787, a group of Boston merchants decided to send two ships on a desperate mission around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean, to establish new trade with China, settle an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish, and find the legendary Northwest Passage. The seven-year adventure, known as the Columbia Expedition,...
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