This paper discusses the Overland Trail. The Overland Trail was one of the most heavily traveled routes by pioneers heading West between 1862 and 1868. It stretched from Julesburg, Colorado to Ft.Bridger, Wyoming. The great Overland migration is among the best known periods in the story of the American frontier, due to detailed letters and diaries kept by some of the over 500,000 pioneers who traveled it. From these records, many of them kept by women, we learn about daily life on the trail, and the frontier experience in general. The diaries of men and women carry certain predictable characteristics, with men writing of "fight, conflict, competition and hunting" and women writing of their concerns with "family and relational values".
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