Full name: A Light in the Wilderness: A Novel

Author: Jane Kirkpatrick Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Christian fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780800722319

Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read-as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him. Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows she will follow him anywhere-even when the trek exacts a terrible cost. Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. She spends her time trying to impart the wisdom and ways of her people to her grandson. But she will soon have another person to care for. As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover what it means to be truly free in a land that makes promises it cannot fulfill. Based on a true story. Similar books: This Road We Traveled by Jane Kirkpatrick Where Lilacs Still Bloom by Jane Kirkpatrick The Memory Weaver by Jane Kirkpatrick Everything She Didn't Say by Jane Kirkpatrick A Tendering in the Storm by Jane Kirkpatrick A Clearing in the Wild by Jane Kirkpatrick A Flickering Light by Jane Kirkpatrick One Glorious Ambition by Jane Kirkpatrick The Daughter's Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick The Furies by John Jakes Raptor by Gary Jennings Angel and Apostle by Deborah Noyes People of the River by W. Michael Gear Patriot Hearts by Barbara Hambly The Rebels by John Jakes People of the Mist by W. Michael Gear The Warriors by John Jakes The Lawless by John Jakes The Titans by John Jakes The Americans by John Jakes