Coon, Polly Lavinia ___ 1825-1898 ___ American ___ n/a

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is almost no information about Polly Coon available on the internet. She is remembered because of her short diary which describes a wagon train journey in 1852, organised and led by her parents, from Wisconsin to Oregon. (I am unsure as to whether she died in 1898 or 1889 - Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online, which is not an open public site, has the texts of Coon's diary, but puts her death date as 1889.)
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1852 ___ family social travel health

WEB TEXT LINKS
a few extracts
a few more

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
 

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1852
 

November 2005, August 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.