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Language
English
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It's 1936 and the Great Depression has taken its toll. Eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort has lived in Middle Swan, Colorado, up in the high country of the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, since before it was Colorado. When she first meets seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle, Hennie is drawn to the young grieving girl. Nit and her husband have come to this small mining town in search of work, but the loneliness and loss Nit feels are almost too much to bear....
Author
Publisher
Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mary Louisa Roberts won the race of a lifetimeâor so she thought. In competition with desperate homesteaders, ruthless land seekers, and a sheriff determined to see her fail, Mary rides out on a horse to strike her claim in the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893. When she finally thrusts her flag into the dirt, 160 acres becomes her own. But with that claim, she risks more than she could ever imagine. A naïve school teacher and young mother abandoned...
Author
Publisher
Self Published
Pub. Date
copyright 1996
Language
English
Description
Douglas Kasten was born June 6, 1935 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Grew up on a farm near La Crescent, Minnesota. He served in the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1957 as a mechanic and crew chief on KC-97 refuelers in the 71st ARS. In 1961 he received a graduate of Theology degree from Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. He has owned and managed a furniture and auto upholstery shop for 30 years. Has 6 children, 11 grandchildren and he is...
17) Ragweed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.