Author : Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher : Jane Roberts Wood
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574410784
"Seventeen-year-old Lucinda Richards begins her job as the new school teacher for the White Star school in West Texas."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher : Jane Roberts Wood
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574410806
This is the third book in the trilogy about Lucy Richards Arnolds' life in rural West Texas in the early 20th century.
Author : Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher : Jane Roberts Wood
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574410792
It is 1915 in the sleepy hamlet of Sweet Shrub. Lucy Richards has a full and busy life. Then Lucy finds out that the town hides tensions and unrest that will result in tragedy.
Author : Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574412795
Recently widowed and struggling to find her fourteen-year-old runaway daughter, ice cream clerk Mary Lou signs up for a single-parenting class and soon finds the entire group enmeshed in her search.
Author : Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher : Ellen C Temple Publishing Incorporated
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780936650050
In 1911, Lucinda Richards begins teaching in Estelline, Texas, where she finds much prejudice and ignorance in her one-room schoolhouse.
Author : Paula Mitchell Marks
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780890966990
Of the spinning wheel and the clatter of the loom provided regular accompaniment to the lives of many Texas women immigrants and their families. Producing much-needed garments and cloth also provided an escape from the worries and isolation of frontier life. One early chronicler, Mary Crownover Rabb, kept her spinning wheel whistling all day and most of the night because the spinning kept her "from hearing the Indians walking around hunting mischief." Through the stories.
Author : Sallie Reynolds Matthews
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890961230
Records one woman's response to pioneer life in Texas at the turn of the century.
Author : Estelline Bennett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 1982-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803260658
For roughnecks in search of trouble, Deadwood was the place to go. An outlaw town?its very beginnings as a mining camp violated government treaties with the Sioux?Deadwood soon acquired a reputation that dime novels could hardly exaggerate. It attracted both the great and the gritty. Calamity Jane lived there, Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back there and Buffalo Bill was an irregular visitor, not to mention Seth Bullock, Mineral Jack, Slippery Sam, Cold Deck Johnny, and Belle Haskell, the best-known madam in town. ø To reform the town's notorious habits, Federal Judge Granville G. Bennett moved to Deadwood with his family in 1877, and his young daughter, Estelline, grew up with the town. She saw it change from a congeries of horse thieves, claim jumpers, road agents, painted ladies, and slick or shabby gamblers to a middle-class railroad town, a little dazed by its history and success. Her story of the settlement that grew up around Deadwood Gulch remains one of the finest and fullest accounts of the taming of the West.
Author : Jane Roberts Wood
Publisher : NAL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780452283398
In the east Texas town of Cold Springs in 1944, the community waits for the war to end. In this place where certain boundaries are not crossed and in a time when people reveal little about themselves, their problems, and their passions, Jane Roberts Wood exposes the hearts of each of four families during the last year of World War II. Bound together by neighbourhood and Southern customs, yet separated by class, money, and family, they are an unforgettable lot, vibrantly brought to life in this " delightfully perceptive and unabashedly romantic " novel (Sandord Herald). As the war grinds to an end, it becomes the catalyst that drives the inhabitants of Cold Springs across the boundaries that had once divided them, taking them to places both chaotic and astonishing.
Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062484109
The eighth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor—now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams's classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty twelve miles from home. She is very homesick, but she knows that her earnings can help pay for her sister Mary's tuition at the college for the blind. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks—every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit. Friendship soon turns to love for Laura and Almanzo. The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura's own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories.
