The Cattlemen's Wives Series


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The Cattlemen's Wives series is about young Christian ladies looking to become the bride of a strong, hardworking cattleman in the West. The stories tell of the test of faith and life in trying times and in their eventual stirring of true love which prevails and wins in the end. Includes brand new never published before BONUS BOOK - The Bear Hunter's Bride! Nathan, a big brute bear hunter, seeks a mail order bride by placing an ad. Ashley, a Mississippi southern belle, answers the ad. Nathan had confessed to his mother that he was falling madly in love with the girl because he had never seen another young lady as lovely as she or a soft or sweet smelling. Ashley Wayne had stolen his heart, and he had no idea how to let her know that he wanted her to keep it. Book One: The Rescued Bride What's a girl to do when her life turns from sorrow to deceit and defeat? Amanda Barnhill knew it wasn't fair; these sorts of things rarely were. However, the Corinth's had made a promise to her ailing mother and so they were determined to follow through in their own deceptive way. Would Amanda ever find the life she only dreamed possible after all the heartache and deception she faced? Still, she took the chance and defied the odds to find the life she desperately wanted. Even the mundane tasks of Amanda's chores were not enough to mask the fact that she desired to find her true love. And find it, she would. Book Two: The Widowed Bride Amelia Shaw had a beautiful life at one time but after the war, her life forever changed. Now she faces a whole new life again due to acts of nature. A lonely widower in Wyoming places a mail-order bride ad looking for a bright young woman to marry. He prays that the first person to answer his ad is the one God wants him to choose. Amelia finds herself being carried along by the throes of circumstances beyond her control. With the help of a kind, new friend she sees hope in her otherwise lonely existence when he shows her a magazine with the mail-order bride's ads in the back. For Amelia to have a happy life again, she has to be willing to take a leap of faith. Book Three: An Irish Bride Kathleen Hayes fears her papa will die leaving her all alone in the world. She meets a new friend who offers safety from the elements as she struggles to get back on her feet. She answers a mail order bride ad she discovered in the back of a magazine. The answer comes back from an interested cattleman in Wyoming. She is thrilled but her current obligations make a turn for the worse again. Being Kathleen is loyal she has to forego her plans of traveling west while she takes care of her ailing friend. Book Four: The Orphaned Bride Meet Cassandra Fisher, an orphan from Western Texas. After surviving a horrific act of nature, a rescue came along and pulled her from the clutches of death. After moving on with the pastor and his wife Cassie brushed up on her sewing and singing skills. She figured her life would be serving the people of Federal, Texas right alongside her newfound parents.




The Cattlemens Wives


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Ranch Wife


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When Jo Jeffers was a young girl suffering from asthma, she promised herself, "When I grow up, if I ever do, I shall go to Arizona and be a cowboy." She did both, and Ranch Wife tells the story of her life as wife and partner of a rancher in the high country of northeastern Arizona. Here she describes the routines of ranch life and vividly recalls the dust storms, plagues, and other hazards that challenged the young city-bred woman. It offers readers not only an insider's view of a working ranch but also an appreciation of how ranchers' wives help sustain such a rugged enterprise.




The Cattleman


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Defenders of the Wildings: The Complete Series


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Once, they were hated and hunted by mage hunters and Plain folk alike. Now, former bounty hunters turned renegade mages Silas and Lainie Vendine finally have the life they dreamed of - until an old and vicious hatred of mages rears its head. Silas and Lainie must fight to protect everything they love, everything they've worked for, before it's all destroyed. If you love fantasy filled with romance and adventure in a unique setting, come join Silas and Lainie Vendine in this new tale from the Wildings. Defenders of the Wildings is a follow-up series to the western-inspired epic romantic fantasy series Daughter of the Wildings. It is a self-contained series and can be enjoyed even if you haven't read Daughter of the Wildings. This ebook omnibus contains all three books of the Defenders of the Wildings series: Mages' Home, Mages' Exile, and Mages' Uprising. Contains language, violence, and mild to moderate sensual content.




Cow Boys and Cattle Men


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Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman, owned the ranch. Jacqueline M. Moore casts aside romantic and one-dimensional images of cowboys by analyzing the class, gender, and labor histories of ranching in Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century. As working-class men, cowboys showed their masculinity through their skills at work as well as public displays in town. But what cowboys thought was manly behavior did not always match those ideas of the business-minded cattlemen, who largely absorbed middle-class masculine ideals of restraint. Real men, by these standards, had self-mastery over their impulses and didn’t fight, drink, gamble or consort with "unsavory" women. Moore explores how, in contrast to the mythic image, from the late 1870s on, as the Texas frontier became more settled and the open range disappeared, the real cowboys faced increasing demands from the people around them to rein in the very traits that Americans considered the most masculine. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.




A Land Remembered


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A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series




In Want of a Wife


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"Dazzling" --Publishers Weekly (starred review) When his mail-order bride arrives from New York, a Wyoming rancher gets more than he bargained for in this first-rate romance from the bestselling Jo Goodman. For fans of Linda Lael Miller and Catherine Anderson. SHE HAS NOWHERE LEFT TO TURN Jane Middlebourne needs a way out. In 1891, life in New York is unforgiving for a young woman with no prospects, especially when her family wants nothing to do with her. So when Jane discovers an ad for a mail-order bride needed in Bitter Springs, Wyoming, she responds with a hopeful heart. HE HAS EVERYTHING TO LOSE Rancher Morgan Longstreet is in want of a wife who will be his partner at Morning Star, someone who will work beside him and stand by him. His first impression of the fair and fragile Jane is that she is not that woman. But when she sets out to prove him wrong, the secrets he cannot share put into jeopardy every happiness they hope to find….




My Outback Life


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Having grown up on the massive Killarney cattle station near Katherine, NT, Toni Tapp Coutts was well prepared when her husband, Shaun, took a job at McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, 600 kilometres away near the Queensland border. Toni became cook, counsellor, housekeeper and nurse to the host of people who lived on McArthur River and the constant stream of visitors. She made firm friends, created the Heartbreak Bush Ball and started riding campdraft in rodeos all over the Territory, becoming one of the NT's top riders. In the midst of this busy life she raised three children and saw them through challenges; she dealt with snakes in her washing basket; she kept in touch with her large, sprawling Tapp family, and she fell deeply in love with the Gulf Country. Filled with the warmth and humour readers will remember from A SUNBURNT CHILDHOOD, this next chapter in Toni's life is both an adventure and a heartwarming memoir, and will introduce readers to a part of Australia few have experienced.




The Saddlemaker's Wife


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Ruby McGavin has inherited part of a cattle ranch from her late husband, only to discover that his family is very much alive, in contrast to what he told her. Even as she is drawn to handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin, she learns more about her late husband's family-and wonders if she ever really knew him. Piecing together the truth, Ruby uncovers a legacy of pain and denial that has pursued the McGavin family for too long.