Diaries from Women on the Westward Journey

Most of the women's diaries from the western trip indicate that they struggle to maintain their wife and mother's role, but in this case they will do what they can. Most of their responsibility is similar to responsibility at home. Cooking, laundry, entertaining children, etc. are women's jobs, but these obligations are more difficult in unknown places. Women also take on additional responsibilities, such as cleaning up the transportation, ensuring that the children are together, acting as a husband in case of illness.

The role of women in the expansion to the West is very important. They profited from the gold rush by doing what they learned in the east. They are very important to travel west. The woman also takes care of the family moving to the west. Without these women, the West might be a very different place.

Most of the women's diaries from the western trip indicate that they struggle to maintain their wife and mother's role, but in this case they will do what they can. Most of their responsibility is similar to responsibility at home. Cooking, laundry, entertaining children, etc. are women's jobs, but these obligations are more difficult in unknown places. Women are responsible for further, such as packing their cars and allowing children to stay together.

Early migration to the west must have been dominated by men, but ongoing homemade behavior encouraged families to settle in the plain. Because boys and girls are doing housework at the border, keeping the wilderness is a difficult task. Women are not only downgraded to farms. Samson's widow Lone Star Pastor Margaret Borland produced these newspapers in 1873 when the item price remained high. On Wichita's livestock farm, her three children are dragging

In 1843, Americans began to move west. The role of women has not changed in recent years. On the road, women are responsible for childbirth and child rearing. These women were living on trucks for over 6 months. So they cooked, cleaned up and raised their children as much as possible. This upheaval and trip to the western provoked a lot of domestic tension. Female Keturah Belknap recorded an argument between his wife and her husband from a nearby carriage. Baby crying. "She wrote," Low cry and intense snore as if something was thrown into a carriage. " "Oh, you killed it," the husband answered, "He will do more to her more." Not only white women suffered during these journeys.