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Jane Davies-a new pregnant widow on the Oregon Trail-spends too much of her time thinking about what could have been. To help herself as well as others, she offers to help a family with three young children whose mother has passed by cooking their meals for them. Her only intention is to help the other family. Soon she finds herself falling in love with the three children in the family she helps.Matthew Henderson cannot believe his bad luck. His wife...
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Trudie Brown has a horrible secret, something that keeps her from being able to make friends along the Oregon Trail. When she starts cooking for a little girl and her widowed father, she has no intentions other than feeding them and helping them get to Oregon. The child, a gregarious social butterfly, believes right away her father should marry the woman cooking for them, but Trudie is certain it will never work, because she can tell no one about...
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When Mary Mitchell agrees to go on the Oregon Trail with her family, she certainly has ulterior motives. Believing that married women are no more than servants to men and children, she wants to get her own homestead, and Oregon is the place she can do just that. Her father discovers her plans, and he tells her she must marry one of the single men who are on the Trail with them, and she only has a week to decide who it will be.Bob Hastings is enamored...
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Betty Meeks likes nothing more than to hide from the world with her nose in a good book, but on the Trail that's a little harder than usual. No longer wanting to be a burden on her sister and her family, Betty begins taking her meals with a friend who cooks for the bachelors in camp. When one of the men asks her to walk after supper, she decides to do so, no matter how difficult her shyness makes it for her.Dr. Malcolm Bentley is attracted to Betty...
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Finally, the caravan is finishing up their almost nine month journey and going home to Clover Creek. As they get close, Henrietta is filled with excitement. She knows she's going where she needs to be. Her pa and brothers are her responsibility, but she doesn't mind. It makes her feel good to do for others. The one thing in her life that bothers her was that the young man she's had her eye on since Independence, has yet to show any interest in her.After...
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With only two young girls, Margaret Bolling, a widow, has been left with nothing. Desperate to survive, she takes her girls from their home in Kentucky to Independence, Missouri-the starting place of the two-thousand-mile trek to Oregon Territory. She only has herself to rely upon, and with her finances in dire straits, she sells baths and meals on the trail after driving her wagon all day. Everyone is so friendly-but one man always seems to be there...
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Penelope Brainerd left the antebellum south for a new adventure on the Oregon Trail against the advice of everyone who knew her. After her best friend-a slave-was sold to another family to keep the girls from being so close, she knew that she could never abide living with slavery. Determined to make it on her own, she is one of two unmarried women in her wagon train from Independence, Missouri to Oregon Territory.From their first day on the trail,...
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When Katie Gabriel lost her husband, and had to bury him on the Oregon Trail, she thought her life was over, but she knew she had to keep going, if only for her children. After her daughter fell into the North Platte River as they were crossing, and the most unlikely man in the entire company jumped in after her, she knew she had to keep the man alive. It was only natural for her to take care of him while he was ill and start feeding him and his children...
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