A Bride Goes West
10 best books like A Bride Goes West (Nannie T. Alderson): Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, A Thread of Grace, The Blood Spell, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, No Life for a Lady, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, Whitethorn Woods, The Ashford Affair
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0679740244 |
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its...
| Author | Mary Doria Russell |
| ISBN | 0449004139 |
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.
It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are...
| Author | C.J. Redwine |
| ISBN | 0062653016 |
Blue de la Cour has her life planned: hide the magic in her blood and continue trying to turn metal into gold so she can help her city’s homeless. But when her father is murdered and a cruel but powerful woman claims custody of Blue and her property, one wrong move could expose her—and doom her once and...
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
| Author | Isabella Lucy Bird |
| ISBN | 0806113286 |
A cosmopolitan, middle-aged Englishwoman touring the Rocky Mountains in 1873, Isabella Bird had embarked upon a trip that called for as much stamina as would have been expected of an explorer or anthropologist — and she was neither! Possessing a prodigious amount of curiosity and a huge appetite...
| Author | Agnes Morley Cleaveland |
| ISBN | 0803258682 |
I picked this book up in Wall Drug Store in South Dakota while on vacation. The author was born in 1874 in New Mexico before it was a state. Her memoir tells of life growing up on a cattle ranch back in the days of true cowboys. She tells what it was really like to live and work on a cattle ranch back then, when going...
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
| Author | Lillian Schlissel |
| ISBN | 0805211764 |
More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally...
| Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
| ISBN | 0803272774 |
The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt...
| Author | Andrew Yang |
| ISBN | 0316414247 |
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy...
| Author | Maeve Binchy |
| ISBN | 0307265781 |
Maeve Binchy once again brings us an enchanting book full of the wit, warmth, and wisdom that have made her one of the most beloved and widely read writers at work today.
When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion...
| Author | Lauren Willig |
| ISBN | 1250014492 |
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig "spins a web of lust, power and loss" (Kate Alcott) that is by turns epic and intimate, transporting and page-turning
As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything...
When the immortal Bai Qian finally meets her intended husband, the heir to the Sky Throne, she considers herself in luck—until an old enemy returns to threaten everything she holds dear…
When a mortal woman enters the immortal world to be with her true love, she sparks a jealousy that ends...
| Author | William Kittredge |
| ISBN | 0679740066 |
William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a...
| Author | Alvin C. York |
| ISBN | 1889128465 |
The journals of Sergeant Alvin York were originally compiled and edited by Tom Skeyhill in 1930. This 1998 copy included some black & white photos and was edited by Richard Wheeler.
Most U.S. citizens have little knowledge of America’s involvement in World War I as it was not a part of...
| Author | Robert M. Utley |
| ISBN | 0803295588 |
Whatever his name or alias at the moment—Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney—people always called him the Kid. Not until his final month did anyone call him Billy the Kid. Newspapers pictured him as a king of outlaws; and his highly publicized capture, trial, escape, and end fixed...
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
| Author | Helen Nearing |
| ISBN | 0930031636 |
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice,...
