This diary is unique because it was written by two women--twin sisters. There does not seem to be any schedule of when the writers would change, it just occurs. The writing is clear and easy-to-read. It includes the hard facts of the trail--no grass, no water, no fuel--as well as the pleasantries with entries about beautiful flowers, their going off with their husbands to "get away", and entertaining themselves as friendly sisters. 86 pages, indexed. View More...
231 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. These letters from an army officer's bride to her family in Washington , D. C. (a city newly completed by rapid growth of the United States government) were written just after the Civil War, and described the beginning of a very different life for her in the distant Pacific Northwest. View More...
A story by Mary Ney Gilhooly who tells the story of her mother's last year of life, and of her death, in Mary's home. A story of both heartbreak and humor, of life lived as fully as possible despite many losses. It provides an opportunity for the human spirit to move beyond itself in the service of another. This is a story infused with the belief that, when death came for her mother, there also came a new and perfect life with her Creator. 168 pages. @ View More...
Born in 1860 in West Virginia to a wealthy family, Nannie grew up conforming to Southern ways. Her father died at the first battle of Manassas; her mother remarried in 1863, leaving Nannie to be raised by her grandmother. At sixteen, she met her future husband, a cowboy, while visiting an aunt in Kansas. Several years later, they married, and settled on his ranch in Montana. She soon discovered living on a remote ranch, far from a town, was very different from her pampered life in the South. She thrived, though, in the wild west where she was free of Southern social constraints and customs, wh... View More...
