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Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
345 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land and enjoyed a safe journey--until October, when a heavy snowstorm forced difficult decisions. The first of many for young Mary Sullivan, newlywed Sarah Montgomery, the widow Ellen Murphy,...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind. Despite her son's concerns, Tabitha hires her own wagon to join the party. Along with her reluctant daughter and her ever-hopeful granddaughter, the intrepid Tabitha has her misgivings. The trials they face along the way will severely test Tabitha's faith, courage, and ability to hope. With her family's survival on the line,...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1853, Abigail Scott was a nineteen-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family, what she sees as a working woman appalls her -- and prompts her to devote her life to fighting for the rights of women, including the right to vote."--...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Clara Estby is hauled by her mother, Helga, on a 7,000-mile walk from Spokane, Wash., to New York in 1896. The fashion industry is looking for promotion of the new, shorter dress for women; Helga is looking for a cash prize to save the family farm from foreclosure ... and Clara dreams of becoming a businesswoman.
Author
Publisher
Center point Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic story of a freed slave who has lost her husband and her freedom papers and must find a way to survive in the wilderness of the Oregon Territory"--Provided by publisher.
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