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Angel of mercy series (Al Lacy) volume 8
Pub. Date
c1999
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Tears fill the eyes of Nurse Natalie Fallon when she discovers old flame Rex Rawlins in the hospital emergency room, paralyzed from the waist down. They find they're still in love but Rex refused to let Natalie marry a man who can't walk. Will a miracle grant them a life together? Meanwhile, Natalie's friend and fellow nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman is terror stricken when she learns that her husband John Brockman is riding into a trap with an imposter...
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"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...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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Step back in time and experience the spirit of the West through the eyes of five women: Clara Brown, Sara WInnemucca, Nellie Cashman, Isabella Bird, and Margaret Brown. From a newly freed slave to a refined Englishwoman, from a Native American to a miner's wife, these women, vastly different at first glance, have much to teach about perseverance and courage.
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 11
Pub. Date
c1995
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Ariana is kidnapped from her comfortable home by a gang of outlaws and finds heartbreak and love from an unexpected source.
54) A pioneer woman
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Pub. Date
c1994
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Describes the daily life and responsibilities of women pioneers on the Western frontier. Includes chapters on education and religion, entertainment, and on independent pioneer women.
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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"Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846-47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen's story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman's life writ large, one whose impossible balancing...
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Pub. Date
1996
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The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from...
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Oklahoma western biographies volume 29
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. This concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.