Letter from Lucy Rutledge Cooke to Marianne Rutledge Willis, October, 1852
written by Lucy Rutledge Cooke, 1827-1915 (1852); edited by Kenneth L. Holmes; in Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, vol. 4: 1952: The California Trail (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), 289-303