When the pioneers were crossing the Great Plains where there
were no trees, where did women find privacy to go to the bathroom?
Also, if you were traveling by stage, how did they answer nature’s
call?
These were Victorian times and discussing such delicate matters
was almost taboo. Pioneer women keeping diaries of the journey
seldom if ever wrote about going to the bathroom.
In The Califor
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