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Westering women : a novel
- Title
- Westering women : a novel / Sandra Dallas.
- Author
- Dallas, Sandra
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-3078 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 327 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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, or for the triumphs of finding strengths they did not know they possessed. And not all will make it. As Maggie gets to know the other women, she soon discovers that 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"--
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Women > West (U.S.) > Fiction
- Single mothers > Fiction
- Overland journeys to the Pacific > Fiction
- Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction
- Female friendship > Fiction
- Marriage brokerage > Fiction
- Wagon trains > Fiction
- FICTION / Historical / General
- FICTION / Women
- Wagon trains
- Single mothers
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Marriage brokerage
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Female friendship
- Women
- Overland Trails > History > 19th century > Fiction
- United States > Overland Trails
- West United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Western fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-327).
- Call Number
- JFD 20-3078
- ISBN
- 9781250239662
- 1250239664
- 9781250239679 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019034031
- OCLC
- 1097577948
- Author
- Dallas, Sandra, author.
- Title
- Westering women : a novel / Sandra Dallas.
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-327).
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-3078