Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Sequim Valley is located between Wasington's Olympic Mountains and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Once a major dairy farming area, Sequim is now becoming a retirement community for people from all over the country. These family histories show the sharp contract between life 50 to 150 years ago and life today. This book will be a great resource for both current and future researchers because contributors were asked to include basic family genealogy.

In book two of the Change and cherish series, Emma Giesy is married and the mother of two. She's strong-willed and smart. Despite the odds, she and her husband branch off from a religious community of the 1850s to work and live independently in the remote coastal forest of the Washington Territory, surrounded by her husband's family rather than the influence of the autocratic German leader who has taken the main colony into Oregon.

A classic Western story that inspired no fewer than three different filmed versions, The Light of Western Stars tells the tale of Madeline Hammond, a wealthy young woman from the high society of the East Coast who seeks a change of pace in the rowdy Wild West. She finds out a lot about herself -- and finds true love in the process. The book's gorgeous descriptions of the Western landscape and life on the ranch have enthralled generations of Zane Grey...

Among the women of the Twentieth Century American West, a few lived extraordinary lives. With tempered steel in their character, they were loved by some, admired by most, and respected by all. This collection of stories, documents and photographs provides a window into the past of one of these special women, a glimpse into her life and times. The stories draw from Peterson family oral history, many of them told by Minnie herself around the campfire...

When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown in 1874, it's a far better fate than the life she leaves behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her station, May's only hope of freedom is a secret government program whereby women from the "civilized" become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. This is the story of May's breathtaking adventures: first a romance with a young Army captain; then marriage to the...

Sequim is located between Washington's Olympic Mountains and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Once a major dairy farming area, Sequim has become a retirement community for people from all over the country. These 157 family histories, and many photos, show the sharp contrast between life 50 to 150 years ago and life today. This book will be a great resource for both current and future researchers because contributors were asked to include basic family genealogy....

One of the outstanding novels in the canon of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in the vast frontier farmlands of Nebraska. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, it renders a deeply moving portrait of a community and the free-spirited girl at its heart.

In this work, Leroy smith paints a vivid picture of the olympic peninsula from his early childhood through his adolescence and adulthood. Many of the events in the book happen between 1895 and 1920, and include milestones such as the early homesteads and the building of highway 101 through the northwest corner of the peninsula.