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.