Ann H. Costello

s a B.A. in history and an M.L.S. from Brigham Young University. She is a former manuscripts librarian, who is presently a homemaker living in Sandy, Utah.

“Strange Fever”: Women West | Kenneth L. Holmes, ed., Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trail, 1840-1890

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 1

“This past winter there has been a strange fever raging here … . It seems to be contagious and it is raging terribly, nothing seems to stop it but to tear up and take a…