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Book Madam s Creek

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betsy Reeder
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2024-03-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Madam s Creek written by Betsy Reeder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a creative, introspective eighteen-year-old, newly engaged to his childhood sweetheart, is forced to serve in war, will he remain intact? Who will he be after three years of struggle, not only against an enemy force that includes his older brother, but against his very nature? Set in the mountains of western Virginia during the Civil War era, Madam’s Creek tells the story of Marcus Lilly and Maylene Farley, doing their best to cope with the madness of war in a region that is first part of the Confederacy, then part of fledgling West Virginia, a Union state. Pulled apart by the conflict, they must find ways to keep their love and hope alive amidst the avalanche of anxiety and loss the war brings. Finally united, they face an unexpected threat to their bond, and it can be resolved only through the revelation of a long-held secret. A secret held by someone neither Maylene nor Marcus ever considered.

Book Madam s Creek

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betsy Reeder
  • Publisher : Dudley Court Press, LLC
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 194540101X
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Madam s Creek written by Betsy Reeder and published by Dudley Court Press, LLC. This book was released on 2017 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaped by their mountain landscape, as well as each other, imaginative Maylene Farley and Marcus Lilly grow up as close as twin fawns in the mid-nineteenth century. Soon after the threat of a competitor for Maylene?s affection is resolved, their friendship turns to romance. However, Marcus is conscripted by the Confederacy and drawn into the Civil War. On the home front, turmoil reigns as West Virginia succeeds in breaking away from Virginia, turning Confederate turf into a new Union state. Surviving two close calls and a serious illness, Marcus returns at last to Madam?s Creek to find Maylene gaunt almost beyond recognition, a community marred by murder and mistrust, and his family altered by tragedy. But a more devastating shock, completely unexpected, awaits him at the Farley home. Healed from physical damage, Marcus struggles to mend emotionally as the sweet reunion he anticipated is instead a painful wedge growing between him and the refuge?Maylene?he held onto throughout the war. The couple soon learns that the biggest threat to their relationship is not the separation and anxiety imposed by the national conflict; it is something much harder to face head-on? until a remark from a ?well-meaning? gossip tears open their shrouded wounds. It is then that a crucial secret is unveiled, and it comes from a source neither Maylene nor Marcus ever considered.

Book Madam s Creek

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betsy Reeder
  • Publisher : Canterbury House Publishing, Limited
  • Release : 2019-10-21
  • ISBN : 9781945401107
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Madam s Creek written by Betsy Reeder and published by Canterbury House Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, Marcus and Maylene find their romance interrupted by the Confederate draft. Three years later, picking up where they left off proves far more difficult than either anticipates. The unveiling o a secret is necessary for them to reclaim the closeness they once cherished on Madam's Creek.

Book Brothels  Bordellos   Bad Girls

Download or read book Brothels Bordellos Bad Girls written by Jan MacKell Collins and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.

Book Fishes of West Virginia

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  • Author : Edmund Lee Goldsborough
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 18 pages

Download or read book Fishes of West Virginia written by Edmund Lee Goldsborough and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Master Plan for the Rogue River Component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System

Download or read book Master Plan for the Rogue River Component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System written by United States. Dept. of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries

Download or read book Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries written by United States. Bureau of Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Six Racy Madams of Colorado

Download or read book Six Racy Madams of Colorado written by Caroline Bancroft and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of six ladies of pleasure, whose parlor houses were scandalous ornaments to the whole state, make amusing reading.

Book Soil Survey of Josephine County  Oregon

Download or read book Soil Survey of Josephine County Oregon written by Roger Borine and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hellgate Recreation Area Management Plan

Download or read book Hellgate Recreation Area Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1316 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book California Madams

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  • Author : Sherry Monahan
  • Publisher : Farcountry Press
  • Release : 2019-08-12
  • ISBN : 1560377674
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book California Madams written by Sherry Monahan and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848, fortune-seekers from around the globe descended on California, among them a sprinkling of enterprising women. Author Sherry Monahan explains, ""Living in the wild American West provided women with equal opportunity - for both success and failure. Conventional wisdom suggests that women became prostitutes only because they were desperate. . . In fact, many of the women were smart entrepreneurs and saw a way to acquire fast and, in several cases, vast wealth. Rich in details combed from historical archives, California Madams uncovers the enigmatic and salacious lives of twenty-four women who ran houses of ill repute in the Golden State from the 1840's to the 1940's. Here are the hedonistic and sometimes heroic exploits of Margaret Appel, Diamond Jessie, Hattie Wells, Ah Toy, and Lee Francis, but also the unsung sagas of Emily Edwards, Cora Lee, Sylvia Daniels, May Ellis, Alma, Jewett, and many more."

Book Pistol Packin  Madams

Download or read book Pistol Packin Madams written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1840 and 1870, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic dreamers embarked on a 2,000-mile journey into the wide-open frontier of the United States in search of free land, gold, adventure, and a better life. Although only a few women were numbered among the very first pioneers, those who did take the risk changed the face of the United States forever. The western woman left the restrictions and conventions of her way of life behind and carried the struggle of emancipation into areas sacred to the male. She competed in business and politics, bronco busting, smoking, drinking, gambling, and gun-toting. This book celebrates the stories of the nonconforming, gun-toting pioneers who settled the West.

Book Surry County Records  Surry County  Virginia  1652 1684

Download or read book Surry County Records Surry County Virginia 1652 1684 written by Eliza Timberlake Davis and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1980 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deriving from two volumes of court order books--the oldest extant records of Surry County--this work consists of abstracts of court proceedings and legal transactions and includes recordings of deeds, inventories, coroners' inquests, powers of attorney, and bills of sale. In short, this work encompasses all the public records of the newly created county, doubtless embracing references to some 6,000 persons listed in the index.

Book Mobsters  Madams   Murder in Steubenville  Ohio

Download or read book Mobsters Madams Murder in Steubenville Ohio written by Susan Guy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true crime history chronicles more than a century in the life of a small Midwestern city with an outsized reputation for violence and vice. Gambling, prostitution and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over century. In its heyday, the city’s Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well as underage runaways. The white slave trade was rampant, and along with all the vice crimes, murders became a weekly occurrence. This revealing history chronicles the rise of Steubenville’s prodigious underworld from the 1890s to the modern day. By the turn of the century, Steubenville’s law enforcement seemed to turn a blind eye, and cries of political corruption were heard in the state capital. This scenario replayed itself over and over again during the past century as mobsters and madams ruled and murders plagued the city and surrounding county at an alarming rate. Newspapers nationwide would come to nickname this mecca of murder "Little Chicago."