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Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman
Song Cycle by Alan Louis Smith
1. The allure of the West
2. Prologue to the journal [sung text checked 1 time]
...We knew nothing of frontier life, nor how to prepare for it. And [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
3. There's a lady -- Monday, April 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
...whenever we stopped, even to water the horses, there would be [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
4. Considerable excitement -- Saturday, April 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
...We found considerable excitement prevailing over the report that a [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
5. The face of the earth -- Tuesday, May 14 [sung text checked 1 time]
We were safely across the wide and muddy-colored stream by eleven [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
6. Buffalo chase -- Wednesday, May 22 [sung text checked 1 time]
After we had started this morning, there was great excitement over a [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
7. The Sioux tribe and the "White Squaw" -- Monday, June 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
We traveled ten miles to-day and stopped on good grass. In the [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
8. Lost boy -- Saturday, July 27 [sung text checked 1 time]
...Our boy Robert took up a horse near the road, it having the [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
9. Upon them she depended -- Tuesday, August 27 [sung text checked 1 time]
...At noon we stopped in the cañon and took our lunch. Here we [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
10. The mountain -- Friday, August 30 [sung text checked 1 time]
After traveling one mile from the edge of the lake, we came to the [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
11. Margaret's dream
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12. Here we are -- Saturday, September 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
During the last eight days of the journey, we had descended, in [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
13. Epilogue to the journal [sung text checked 1 time]
...We had traversed the continent, from the far east to the farthest [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Margaret Ann Alsip Frink (1818 - 1893), written 1850, copyright © 1983 by University of Nebraska Press [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Total word count: 1267