Writing The Trail

Offers analysis of five narratives - Susan Magoffin's "Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico", Royce's "A Frontier Lady", Clappe's "The Shirley Letters", Eliza Farnham's "California, In-doors and Out", and Lydia Spencer Lane's "I Married a Soldier" - to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western environment differed from men's.