Westering Women - Dallas, Sandra

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Auteur(s) : Dallas, Sandra

Editeur : St. Martins Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/01/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 338.0

Expédition : 288

Dimensions : 20.6 x 13.4 x 2.5

ISBN : 1250781418

Résumé :

From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas's Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail

Exciting novel ... difficult to put down. -Booklist


If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?

It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting eligible women to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west.

None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she's not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.

Biographie:
Sandra Dallas is a New York Times bestselling author of nearly twenty adult novels, several children's novels, and numerous works of non-fiction about Western subjects. Her work has won numerous awards and prizes including the Colorado Book Award and, in 2021, she was inducted into the Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame. A former bureau chief for Business Week magazine, Sandra lives in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado with her husband....

Sommaire:

From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas's Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail

Exciting novel ... difficult to put down. -Booklist


If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?

It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting eligible women to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west.

None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she's not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.