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Duey, Kathleen
WILLOW CHASE, Kansas territory 1857,
(AMERICAN DIARIES)
New York : Aladdin, 1997
IL 5-8
ISBN 0689813544
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Willow
and her family are facing a dilemma that many pioneers had to deal with.
Should they cross a flooded river, risking everyone's lives, or wait for
the water to go down while their oxen and cattle and horses lose more weight
and strength grazing on rotting, hail beaten grass? When the decide to
cross, Willow must confront her worst fear. Her father was drowned at a
river crossing a year before. Overwintering, her mother remarried--to a
man who shared the vision of a westward journey--a man Willow cannot welcome
as part of her family. Can she find her courage? Will she ever be able
to accept her stepfather?
(Kathleen Duey, author. kathleen@cts.com) |
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SUBJECTS:
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Survival -- Fiction
Remarriage -- Fiction |
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