Main Topic: Storytelling

Topic: Great Plains

Speaker: Deb Carpenter-Nolting and Lyn Messersmith

The Heart’s Compass: Women on the Trails

This is an account of pioneer women crossing the Plains in the 19th century. Carpenter-Nolting and Messersmith present original poems, songs and stories, as well as actual diary entries of women who journeyed on the Oregon Trail.