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69) Westering women
Author
Language
English
Description
"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. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts,...
74) Western Union
Author
Publisher
Walter J. Black
Pub. Date
1939.
Language
English
Description
Idealistic easterner Wayne Cameron helps to build telegraph lines across the West, facing buffalo stampedes, Indian raids, timber rustlers, and rugged nature.