Mattie offers a realistic and haunting portrait of life on the plains and of a most unforgettable woman. Against the backdrop of sparsely settled western Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century, Mattie tells the story of a pioneer woman physician.
Sarah's Valley
. E. G. Sarah's dream was to live in a valley. It was called a carcass. From the late 1600's until the late 1800's, soldiers used an iron shell filled with pitch that burned at intense heat. The united states ordnance manual of 1861 lists carcasses.
Libbie Real Women of the American West, Book 1
But she refuses to be separated from the man she loves. Here is her story, a first-person narrative based on three books written by the real-life Libbie and surviving correspondence. Experience her sacrifices and hair-raising adventures, the hijinx Autie the nickname Libbie gave to her husband played on her, regretted flirtations, and a rare and remarkable love that would not be tamed.
Reviews:"a wondrous, intimate story of an unsung heroine of the West. Romantic timesreal women of the american west, in series order libbiesundance, butch and MeCherokee RoseJessieABOUT JUDY ALTER:Judy Alter is an award-winning author who enjoys writing about women of the American West. Winner of the western writers of america Spur Award and the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement, Judy also enjoys writing mysteries.
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Return to Sarah's Valley: Sequel to Sarah's Valley
Now an old man in his nineties, one of Winnipesaukee's descendants, Patrick meets Michael Lawdry, and tells him how two Lawdry men influenced his life. In sarah's valley, Patrick Smithson meets Frank Lawdry. It was their story of survival. Return to sarah's Valley continues where Sarah's Valley leaves off.
This is a story of life during the Great Depression, struggles and heartache, but also the deep love that a man has for one woman.
EMBRACE THE WIND: An Historical Novel of the American West Aislynn's Story Book 2
This unlikely love story details real triumphs and tragedies from frontier women’s letters, diaries and newspapers of the day, and places Aislynn in the center of their history. She turns to the raw, contentious US marshal of the Wyoming Territory, Orrin Sage, who is hiding a guilty secret of his own.
Setting out alone, Aislynn brings her optimism and determination to Cheyenne. What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Embrace the wind illuminates an intimate picture of the American frontier; the story of the women who changed the West and helped forge the freedoms we enjoy today.
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The Widow's Walk
For many months, day after day, she climbs that ladder and looks out over the Texas plains. Andrew, thirteen, slips away early one morning to search for his stepfather. So, adam king, for one last time, Bessie climbs those steps to see if her husband, will be returning to her. She is now left to survive on the Texas panhandle with her son, Matthew, and an orphan Kiowa baby, she has named Ki.
From her widow's walk, Bessie King watches and waits for her husband, Adam.
Far Away Home: An Historical Novel of the American West Aislynn's Story Book 1
. Some might think this is a problem; Aislynn believes it is an opportunity, but she has a lot to learn. In today's troubled world, far Away Home will make you believe no matter how many challenges fate sends your way, the human spirit can triumph. Aislynn's journey begins in a new york city tenement and leads her across the frontier to a Utah mining camp where she must cope with the three very different men in her life: smart, good-natured, solicitous Tim, good-guy Johnny and the intense but intriguing Liam Moran.
Life in the roughshod camp brings small joys and devastating losses. No formulaic romance, this well-researched love story depicts life as it truly was for the thousands of women who went west reaching for a new life. The novel races through authentic experiences involving historical events until it erupts in an unexpected ending.
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Molly's Memoir
Molly’s memoir offers a fascinating picture of a strong Native American woman, historical events, medicinal healing, biases, and the significance of family ties – even when you aren’t blood kin. Mr. Stories from the past, and from when the memoir is written in 1990, are intertwined as the most memorable events of a remarkable life, are revealed with humor and a gentle touch.
The background of these stories begins in 1905 when west virginia was wild and wooly, when a journalism student, who works at the Springfield Senior Care Facility, is recruited by two gray-haired, and continues to the later half of the 20th century, knee-high wearing women to inscribe Molly’s tales.
. Growing up in the isolated Monongahela Mountains, she learns about love, faith, and of the craft of healing with medicinal herbs. Minion pushed open the door of the cabin and immediately froze when he heard the shrilling sound of an infant crying.
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When the Yellow Mocker Calls Two Feather's Legacy Book 1
And, given his advanced age, he somehow senses that time is near; he does not want to die and leave young Charity alone and desolate. When her grandfather suddenly passes away that night at Eli’s house, that threat never comes to fruition. In the south carolina hills, white grandfather to fort charlotte, three-quarter cherokee, sahani, 14-year-old, sets out on a journey with her 83-year-old maternal, along the Savannah River Watershed, in the fall of 1829, whose Christian name is Charity, for what she thinks is a trip to trade the pelts he has accumulated in order to replenish their supplies.
He and his wife reared charity after her mother and father both died in a yellow fever epidemic when she was 3 years old. Young, and, charity is forced to abide by her grandfather’s wishes and stay there with Eli’s family… When the Yellow Mocker Calls is based on my great-great-grandmother’s life; her spiritual journey, her love of family and storytelling, her never ending quest for knowledge, most importantly, her love for Henry… .
And, that a year or so earlier, he and his long-time friend, eli gulledge, talked about what would happen to Charity should both he and his wife pass away and have arranged for Charity and Eli’s son Henry to meet before that time comes to see if they will take a liking to one another. When charity, hears that, but her grandfather tells her that she cannot go back home with him and assures her that if young Henry doesn’t take a liking to her, who has never met Eli or his family, she threatens to act rude in order to make them not like her so that she can go back home with him, he is sure that some young buck down in Fort Charlotte will be looking for a wife.
However, charity soon discovers that her grandfather’s objective in making this trip is to get her married off and settled somewhere.
Annabelle's Diary
In her older years, maybe even her younger ones too, she was never without a jar of Garrett snuff. When a child, I thought she was tall, larger than life. She also told me about leaving her home and family in Savannah to move to Mobile to live near my grandfather’s family. And because her house was so small, I slept in her bedroom with her.
. Annabelle was my great-grandmother; she was a Full Blood, a Choctaw Indian from Savannah, Georgia. Shrunken from her many years on earth, she stood barely four feet, ten inches tall. Is that how you remember all of those stories you tell me, about when you were a child and about your kinfolks back then” I asked.
They remain with you your entire life. Tell me a story, Grandmother, ” I begged. I watched her comb it out and then she would braid it, wind it back into a bun and pin it low, just above the nape of her neck.