Abigail Scott Dunaway's Path Breaking

Abigail Scott Dunaway was an American women's rights advocate who was also a newspaper writer and a newspaper editor. One of her many works included "Path Breaking" which was from her memoir. She, along with her entire family, followed the Oregon Trail to start a new life. In this memoir, Abigail discussed the hardships she faced from being a woman in the new found territory. Women did hard labor, as well as the usual tasks expected from a woman in that time period. She stated in her memoir that "...the most lingering of my many regrets is the fact that I was often compelled to neglect my little children, while spending my time in the kitchen, or at the churn or wash tub, doing heavy work for hale and hearty men..." Being a woman during this