[PDF] Westering Women eBook

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250239672

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From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail AG Journal's RURAL THEMES BOOKS FOR WINTER READING | Hasty Book Lists' BEST BOOKS COMING OUT IN JANUARY “Exciting novel ... difficult to put down.” —Booklist "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she’s not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2020-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643585178

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It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose.

Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0307803171

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An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.

Author : Sandra L. Myres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826306265

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Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534146210

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In 1933, what's left of the Turner family--twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers--finds itself driving the back roads of rural America. The children have been swept up into a new migratory way of life. America is facing two devastating crises: the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the country have lost jobs. In rural America it isn't any better as crops suffer from the never-ending drought. Driven by severe economic hardship, thousands of people take to the road to seek whatever work they can find, often splintering fragile families in the process. As the Turner children move from town to town, searching for work and trying to cobble together the basic necessities of life, they are met with suspicion and hostility. They are viewed as outsiders in their own country. Will they ever find a place to call home? New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas gives middle-grade readers a timely story of young people searching for a home and a better way of life.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429934352

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From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon in Swandyke, a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path including nine young children who are walking home from school. But only four children survive. Whiter Than Snow takes you into the lives of each of these families: There's Lucy and Dolly Patch—two sisters, long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandyke's only black resident, whose love for his daughter Jane forces him to flee Alabama. There's Grace Foote, who hides secrets and scandal that belies her genteel façade. And Minder Evans, a civil war veteran who considers his cowardice his greatest sin. Finally, there's Essie Snowball, born Esther Schnable to conservative Jewish parents, but who now works as a prostitute and hides her child's parentage from all the world. Ultimately, each story serves as an allegory to the greater theme of the novel by echoing that fate, chance, and perhaps even divine providence, are all woven into the fabric of everyday life. And it's through each character's defining moment in his or her past that the reader understands how each child has become its parent's purpose for living. In the end, it's a novel of forgiveness, redemption, survival, faith and family.

Author : Linda S. Peavy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806126197

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Looks at the lives of the homebound wives of Western pioneers

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312187101

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Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250005027

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Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534122915

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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.