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Author: Marcia Meredith Hensley
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInstead of talking about women's rights, these frontier women grabbed the opportunity to become landowners by homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s. Here they tell their stories in their own words-through letters and articles of the time-of adventure, independence, foolhardiness, failure, and freedom. Book jacket.
Author: Melanie J. Mayer
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribing her as a character Horatio Alger might have created, Mayer, who wrote Klondike Women, and DeArmond, a historian and journalist in Sitka, describe how Irish-born Mulrooney (1872-1967) migrated to the US and became a trader, then pioneered in the wilds of the Yukon basin, founded town and businesses, built two fortunes, supported her family, and was an ally to other working women. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Judy Rohrer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-05-28
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 081650251X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStaking Claim analyzes Hawai'i at the crossroads of competing claims for identity, belonging, and political status. Judy Rohrer argues that the dual settler colonial processes of racializing native Hawaiians (erasing their indigeneity), and indigenizing non-Hawaiians, enable the staking of non-Hawaiian claims to Hawai'i.
Author: Tessa Radley
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0373732120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen her flaky sister abruptly backs out of their surrogacy agreement, Ella McLeod is left with a newborn she's in no position to care for. She'll have to give the baby up for adoption. Enter Yevgeny Volkovoy--her sister's bossy billionaire brother-in-law. Yevgeny won't let a Volkovoy be raised by strangers; he wants custody now. How can Ella be so cold as to deny him? Even worse--why does this woman warm his steely heart? He may be staking his claim on the baby, but Ella may stake a counterclaim on his bachelorhood.
Author: Sarah Carter
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1560374497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy shedding light on Montana's first women homesteaders--determined 19th- and early 20th-century pioneers--Carter reveals inspiring stories filled with joy, tragedy, and redemption.
Author: Lynda Chance
Publisher: Lynda Chance Books
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Total Pages: 67
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-one-year-old Elaina Ruiz has only just begun college when she meets Raul Vega for the first time. Recognizing his ruthless intensity for what it is, she doesn't correct him when he assumes she is an eighteen-year-old freshman. Raul Vega has never met a woman he couldn't do without. Until he meets Elaina Ruiz and knows she has to belong to him--even if it means waiting for her to grow up.
Author: Tessa Bailey
Publisher: Entangled: Brazen
Published: 2014-02-03
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1622664760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNYPD sniper Matt Donovan is in Hell. Instead of driving his best friend’s little sister home, he’s been convinced to offer her roommate a lift: a fresh-faced ray-of-sunshine with a body that makes grown men weep. There's no way he'll allow himself to be tempted by the little vixen, no matter how hard she tries to tempt him, so he resigns himself to the longest—and hardest—drive of his life. Lucy Mason had no idea her brother's best friend was so deliciously hot. Knowing he'd never have his wicked way with his buddy's sister, she pretends to be her roommate. All the better to seduce him. But Matt's no fumbling college boy. His desires run deep—and dark—and he wants to teach Lucy what wicked really means. Matt's demanding appetites only make Lucy want more. But when her cover's blown, he's furious—even as his hunger for her becomes insatiable. Matt can't trust anyone, least of all himself. And he knows all too well that darkness always destroys the light... Each book in the Line of Duty series is STANDALONE: * Protecting What's His * Officer Off Limits * Asking for Trouble * Staking His Claim * Protecting What's Theirs
Author: Carol Finch
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-11-13
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0373297157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Independent Josephine Malloy is determined to stake her own claim during the latest Oklahoma land run. But to fend off the countless suitors seeking a wife and homestead she needs a fake fiance for cover. Enter horse trader Solomon Tremain. As an undercover Deputy U.S. Marshal investigating land fraud, Sol should probably keep his distance from this firebrand. But when Josie gets in trouble with the law it's Sol to the rescue-although he'll need to make their marriage for real. If only she'll stay out of hot water long enough to say "I do"!"--P. [4] cover.
Author: Alanna Radle Rodriguez
Publisher: Landrun Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 259
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter being jilted at the alter & turning her back on her faith, Brigit McKennon rode to the Oklahoma Territory with the promise of a new beginning. Little did she know of the pain awaiting her after successfully running the landrun.
Author: Anna Adams
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1460816226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaphne Soder has come to Honesty, Virginia, to find the twin sister she was separated from at adoption. And it's here in this unlikely small town that she can make a fresh start. First she has to come clean about her past. But truthfulness has a price. If she confesses all, she could lose Patrick Gannon, the single father who's already staking a claim to her heart. Can she make the leap of faith? Together with Patrick's son and her sister, they could create the family they both want. All he has to do is give her a reason to stay.
