For a couple of years in the mid-1960s, Irene Bennett Brown was women's page editor for a farm newspaper. Part of her job was to write a weekly column, subjects whatever was on her mind. These observations had to do with small-town life, family, the seasons, and memories from her childhood. During the same period she wrote feature stories for Sunday newspaper 'magazines'. This collection is her "sort of memoir" of the times.
Dismayed at first when her adoptive parents send her to another town to help her aunt, Hillary finds she can still search for a "total guy" during her seventeenth summer.
Amity Whitford dared stake her own claim on the plains of western Kansas. She built her own homestead with her bare hands and tamed the wild lands. Then she set her sights on politics, running for election as the county school superintendent. But as her dream came within reach, and her love for local newspaper publisher Chalk Holden staked its own claim in her heart, Amity's past returned, bringing a menace more fierce than a storm on the open plains . . .
When Jessamyn Faber moved to Ardensville, Kansas in 1924, she brought with her a secret sorrow. She wanted a job that would take her mind off the past, and being the town switchboard operator proved to be just that. Jessy was the center of town gossip, town drama, town emergencies, and eventually the town conscience. Because beneath its calm, placid surface, Ardensville had serious problems ... the Ku Klux Klan had come to their town. But as she faces Ardensville's needs, Jessy finds unexpected strength in herself...
Meg Brown knows that her new life at her road ranch, Paragon Springs, can't truly begin until she severs all ties with the abusive husband she'd fled years before. Although fearful, she returns to St. Louis determined to find him and obtain a divorce. But Ted Malloy refuses, hoping that Meg's return will win him his dying father's favor - and fortune. It's going to be a long fight, and Meg can't afford to stay away from Kansas and a simmering range war. Reluctantly, she places her destiny in the hands of her likable lawyer, Hamilton Gibbs. Back in Kansas, Meg continues to battle rancher Jack Ambler. And by the time Hamilton Gibbs wins Meg's divorce in St. Louis, he has also won her heart. Before long, they're building a family in Paragon Springs. Then Meg brings the range hostilities to a breaking point by selling the farmers barbed wire to protect their crops from Ambler's cattle. On a wire-cutting spree, Jack Ambler goes too far. . . ." --provided by Goodreads.
Cassidy Curran's wagon has just been hijacked by three bedraggled strangers on their way to Dodge City. On the run from an abusive husband, Cassidy agrees to share her wagon with Grandma Spicy, Lucy Ann and Laddie as they search for their uncle. When they arrive in Dodge City, they learn that the uncle has died, leaving only a small tract of land to Laddie."--Jacket.
Lucy Walsh's heart remains with the struggling town of Paragon Springs but she feels beholden to her husband to make the Run to the Cherokee Strip. Whe he is killed for his Strip claim, she leases the land and returns to Paragon Springs.
Innkeeper and walking-tour guide Celia Landrey fights to protect Pass Creek's main tourist attraction-- the house where actor Clark Gable stayed as a young man.
Clare Hobb is weary of the strict boundaries her iron-handed uncles impose at Hobbs¿ Mills, the family conclave of mills and farms. She¿s in love with Larkin Wade, a handsome and decent farmer the uncles disdain. During one of many trysts between Clare and Larkin, they find her beloved, brain-damaged father, Frank, vainly attempting to aid his brother, Samuel, who has been fatally injured in a wagon runaway accident. It is a festering sore with her uncles that the mentally deficient brother they could do without survives, while Samuel, strong family leader at Hobbs¿ Mills has passed. A deep and secret guilt that she might have helped prevent the accident brings Clare to painfully end her romance with Larkin, pledge full attention to her family, and be the buffer between her father and her extended family¿s continuing ill-treatment of him. But nothing seems to be enough and when her uncles will have her father committed to an institution, Clare knows it¿s time to take her parents and siblings from Hobbs Mills for good. Would a new life in Kansas where Larkin has gone ahead be the answer? Will he wait? Is it possible, ever, to bargain true love away
After her guardian Gram's death and her high school graduation, Bryn journeys to Kansas on a meager lead to unravel the mystery of her past and to discover parents and relatives she has never known.
In 1918 in Kansas a young girl is determined to make it possible for her constantly moving, tenant farmer family to buy the farm that she has come to love and wants to live on permanently.
Celia Landrey is guiding her last walking-tour of the season in historic Pass Creek. Myriad tasks await her attention, such as planning her wedding to handsome cowboy real estate agent, Jake Flagg. Discovery of Smoke Allenby's bones wasn't on the agenda. But there they are, turned up in the removal project of an old underground fuel tank at Jolly Hoffman's service station. A situation Celia, town leader, can hardly ignore. Before he abruptly disappeared 60 years previously, half the town was in love with the charismatic drifter named Smoke Allenby. Older folks in the community knew the charming lothario back then, but when it comes out that Allenby was murdered, they're not talking. What secrets do they hide? Are they protecting one of their own? There are threats against Celia for her investigation but she's determined to separate the innocent from the guilty-halt an eruption of serious trouble. She just wishes she knew whose skin she's trying to save.
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