Molly Gloss
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen travels to eastern Oregon in 1917, hoping to be hired by local ranchers to tame their wild horses, and when George Bliss and his wife invite Martha into their home for the winter, she forms a special bond with the ranch's horses, and the many people she meets while caring for them.
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English
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Homesteader Lydia Sanderson writes about her life on Jump-Off Creek in the higher mountain country of Oregon in 1895. She tells of friendship, loss, daily struggles, and achievements.
"Set in the high mountain country of Oregon during the 1890s, this first novel is a quiet, unsparing portrait of pioneer life, recounted simply and without romanticism. Drawing on pioneer diaries, journals and hand-me-down stories of her own ancestors, Gloss displays...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek--where he grew up and first learned to ride--is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies and rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth"--dust jacket....
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Publisher
Ooligan Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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It's 1960. In a small logging town called Calamus that's about as far in the middle of nowhere as you can get, Wade Curren, star of the high school baseball and football teams, is content living out his role of local hero, holding court in the corner booth of the town diner where his girlfriend Lorna waits tables.
Lorna, working to support her family, is plotting her escape from their small town. Fiercely independent and an avid reader of
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