Shannon Orr
Contributor
Contributor to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (2003) whose work for that encyclopedia formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (1)
Susan Shelby Magoffin was an American diarist who was the first woman to write an account of traveling the Santa Fe Trail. Magoffin’s journal, written in 1846–47, describes trade on the trail at its high point and records important details of the Mexican-American War. Susan Shelby was born into a…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (June 2003)
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