Author: Harriet Cade
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN: 0719824214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
When fifteen-year-old Maybelle Cade and her family joined one of the last wagon trains heading West in 1875, their only aim was to establish a little homestead in Nebraska. They could not have known that they were heading into the middle of a vicious range war which would see them fighting against ruthless and violent men who are determined to see them from their 160 acres upon which they have settled. So, when a series of confrontations between her father and a local landowner lead inexorably to a bloody climax, young Maybelle faces a notorious killer alone on the Nebraska plains...
The Homesteader's Daughter
Author: Harriet Cade
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN: 0719824214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
When fifteen-year-old Maybelle Cade and her family joined one of the last wagon trains heading West in 1875, their only aim was to establish a little homestead in Nebraska. They could not have known that they were heading into the middle of a vicious range war which would see them fighting against ruthless and violent men who are determined to see them from their 160 acres upon which they have settled. So, when a series of confrontations between her father and a local landowner lead inexorably to a bloody climax, young Maybelle faces a notorious killer alone on the Nebraska plains...
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN: 0719824214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
When fifteen-year-old Maybelle Cade and her family joined one of the last wagon trains heading West in 1875, their only aim was to establish a little homestead in Nebraska. They could not have known that they were heading into the middle of a vicious range war which would see them fighting against ruthless and violent men who are determined to see them from their 160 acres upon which they have settled. So, when a series of confrontations between her father and a local landowner lead inexorably to a bloody climax, young Maybelle faces a notorious killer alone on the Nebraska plains...
Homesteader's Daughter
Author: Bonnie L. Armstrong
Publisher: Createspace Indie Pub Platform
ISBN: 9781475283686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A true story of a family living through the depression in the 1930's on a homestead in western New Mexico. The everyday life of that family followed through to the homesteader's life as she grew into a woman with a family of her own.
Publisher: Createspace Indie Pub Platform
ISBN: 9781475283686
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A true story of a family living through the depression in the 1930's on a homestead in western New Mexico. The everyday life of that family followed through to the homesteader's life as she grew into a woman with a family of her own.
Lora Webb Nichols
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Lora Nichols' life is one documented in context. Her diaries, begun in 1897 when she was thirteen, extend for sixty-five years, the final entry written on the day of her death.
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ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Lora Nichols' life is one documented in context. Her diaries, begun in 1897 when she was thirteen, extend for sixty-five years, the final entry written on the day of her death.
The Homesteader's Sweetheart
Author: Lacy Williams
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373829175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
To escape a dreaded arranged marriage, Penny Castlerock will face anything--even life on her grandfather's farm. But it isn't the rustic lifestyle that's got the Philadelphia socialite tied in knots. It's the handsome homesteader and his eight adopted children next door.... With seven boys and a girl to raise, transplanted farmer Jonas White could sure use some help. He just didn't expect it to come from the high-spirited, copper-haired beauty he's always admired from afar. But surely working the land is no life for a woman like Penny. Yet a threat to Jonas's farm just might show him how perfect Penny is for him after all.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373829175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
To escape a dreaded arranged marriage, Penny Castlerock will face anything--even life on her grandfather's farm. But it isn't the rustic lifestyle that's got the Philadelphia socialite tied in knots. It's the handsome homesteader and his eight adopted children next door.... With seven boys and a girl to raise, transplanted farmer Jonas White could sure use some help. He just didn't expect it to come from the high-spirited, copper-haired beauty he's always admired from afar. But surely working the land is no life for a woman like Penny. Yet a threat to Jonas's farm just might show him how perfect Penny is for him after all.
The Homesteader's Daughter;.
Author: Jennes Bryansen (pseud. [from old catalog])
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Homestead Girl
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ISBN: 9780692773642
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780692773642
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Homesteader's Daughter
Author: Jennes Bryansen
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Homesteader's Daughter
Author: Jennes Bryansen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484486088
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Excerpt from The Homesteader's Daughter: A Story of the Times (Founded on Fact) The little compass I have shown you often cannot tell a lie, and it is pointing straight to Mr. Browning's house, where we shall be welcome till the storm is over. We shall soon be there. Be brave, my darlings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484486088
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Excerpt from The Homesteader's Daughter: A Story of the Times (Founded on Fact) The little compass I have shown you often cannot tell a lie, and it is pointing straight to Mr. Browning's house, where we shall be welcome till the storm is over. We shall soon be there. Be brave, my darlings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Author: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative." - The Wall Street Journal. Told with vivid gusto by a young, fiercely determined widow, this towering classic of American frontier life paints a candid portrait of her work, travels, neighbors, and harsh existence on a Wyoming ranch in the early 1900s. Includes 6 original illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative." - The Wall Street Journal. Told with vivid gusto by a young, fiercely determined widow, this towering classic of American frontier life paints a candid portrait of her work, travels, neighbors, and harsh existence on a Wyoming ranch in the early 1900s. Includes 6 original illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.
Hardscrabble
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1534122915
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of America Finalist In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. But while the land is free, farming is difficult and it's a hardscrabble life. Natural disasters such as storms and locusts threaten their success. And heartbreaking losses challenge their faith. Do the Martins have what it takes to not only survive but thrive in their new prairie life? Told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, this new middle-grade novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas explores one family's homesteading efforts in 1900s Colorado.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1534122915
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
2019 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Juvenile Book Winner 2019 Spur Award - Western Writer's of America Finalist In 1910, after losing their farm in Iowa, the Martin family moves to Mingo, Colorado, to start anew. The US government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders. All they have to do is live on the land for five years and farm it. So twelve-year-old Belle Martin, along with her mother and six siblings, moves west to join her father. But while the land is free, farming is difficult and it's a hardscrabble life. Natural disasters such as storms and locusts threaten their success. And heartbreaking losses challenge their faith. Do the Martins have what it takes to not only survive but thrive in their new prairie life? Told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, this new middle-grade novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas explores one family's homesteading efforts in 1900s Colorado.