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Mail Order Bride: The Amish Widow and the Cowboy Father tells the beautiful story about two people brought together by the Lord’s divine plan. Sadie was an Amish beauty who was to be married to an older man whom she did not love. Having been a widow she knew what true love felt like, and this was not it. After coming into town to pick up goods for her family, Sadie is led by God to read a mail order bride advertisement.

Emma's Place is at the End of the Oregon Trail, is a powerful story about how one, then two, then more women, escaped domestic abuse in the mid 1800s by taking the Oregon Trail, and what happened at the end of their journey.

Becky, a widow who was abused by her former husband, is weary of love. Luke, a cowboy from Texas is seeking a love that he once had. He is a God-fearing man who lost his wife and children in a wagon accident years ago. They have both grown accustomed to their lonely lifestyles and lack of companionship. God begins to work through them, and leads them to begin a correspondence via a mail order bride advertisement.

Mail Order Bride: Cowboy Father Finds Beauty Within Her Scarred Body tells the story of God bringing two people together and finding the true definition of love in 1867. Susan, a beautiful daughter to a preacher from California, begins to think she will never find a suitable husband. The men in her town are either all taken or are not of the church. While at a store, she reads a magazine advertisement from a man in California, Gabriel, seeking a "mail order bride".

Mail Order Lottery: Ruth Takes a Chance is about an independent woman from New York who wants more than anything to move out west, become a ranch hand, and earn enough money to buy her own farm. She corresponds privately with a man who explains that she could join him at a lottery mixer put on by a company who arranges marriages, but that they would have an advantage in that he could let her know who he was, and with any luck at all they would be matched up.

The Western Mail Order Bride Company, is a wonderful story about a couple of lonely men in a dusty western town in the late 1800s, and their encounter with an enterprising yet mysterious couple who are a bit mysterious, and who own a business called the Western Mail Order Bride Company. They specialize in bringing women from a variety of social backgrounds, to the western town to be married to men and through some sort of divine intervention, they are often successful.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Garret and Meredith in Montana's Bitterroot Foothills, is the story of a horse rancher who desires a life full of love and marriage, but he is at a loss as to where to find a potential bride. He admires the tough women around him, yet wants a woman from the city. By chance, he's at the telegraph office and gets a letter from a relative back east, wanting to visit, along with her husband and a young woman.

Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way, she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child. After finally arriving at her cowboy's ranch, she falls for the handsome man but knows she must soon reveal her unfortunate circumstance.

A Raggedy Ann For Georgi Anna, is the story of one young woman and her family who decide to leave their Amish community in Pennsylvania and move to Illinois and to a much smaller farm. The entire family enjoys meeting others in the community but Naomi also makes friends with a non-Amish woman and her little daughter, who has bright golden curls.

This is a story about a young Amish couple who had planned to get married when they were permitted to do so. One horrible lie told by a young woman throws the entire community into chaos and splits Jacob and Grace Ella apart. It's only when the woman confesses that things may start to be pulled together once again. The only problem is, unable to stand all of the changes in her life now that she cannot be with Jacob, Grace Ella runs off and the brothers of both families set out to find her.

Facing the Storm Along the Oregon Trail is about a young Amish brother and sister who are excommunicated from their community because she wishes to spread the word of God outside of and within their community. This is forbidden, so they decide to journey west along the Oregon Trail and join their aunt in Oregon, who had been previously excommunicated for her way of thinking, also.

The Warmth Of God In The Alaskan Territory, is a wonderful story about a family from San Francisco who settles in the Alaskan Territory in the late 1800s, when tragedy strikes. The surviving family members, a strong woman and her two sons, who are hearing impaired, find help in a stranger who shows up at their campsite a few days after that to find them very sick. He ends up helping them to partially complete their log cabin, which was the goal of the family - and then a decision has to be made.

The Christian Healer Traverses West on the Oregon Trail: Our Wagon Train, is a wonderful story about a French woman heading west, for either Oregon or California, on a wagon train - and she loses the help of her husband early on in the journey. She gains a reputation for helping others, and has to also fend off a nasty man who is constantly harassing her.

God Is Our Constant Companion Along the Oregon Trail is the story of one family in the mid-1800s and their life - first at home on their farm then their life after that, as they travel into the West and unknown territory. Along the way there are plenty of tragedies yet laughter and life as well, along with faith and hope. The tale is told through the eyes of one teenaged boy.

The Five Orphaned Christian Sisters Journey Along The Oregon Trail, is a moving story about five orphaned sisters and what they find during their journey in a wagon train, west to Oregon. It's a story about love for some of them, faith in God, and the redemption of one lost soul who started the journey all alone. With their uncle to guide and protect them, as well as their strong faith and love of God, they are able to prevail and look forward to their new life on the west coast during the mid-1880s.

Losing his wife years, Wes begins to think he will not find a woman to love or take care of his children. God soon compels him to place an advertisement for a mail order bride, which Amish widow Hannah responds to. Wes is a strong, God-fearing Christian man. They begin a correspondence and feel God’s love emanating through their letters to one another.

Mail Order Bride: The Widow Turns The Montana Rancher’s Hardened Heart, presents the story of a widow with a new baby decides to leave her small town and travel to Montana to be the wife of a Montana man she has never met. Her three children in tow, two of which are twin freed slaves, she immediately runs into a heap of trouble as soon as she arrives; meeting the rancher and his bitter son.

Losing Her Cowboy, is the emotional story of Jordyn, a woman who starts out by lying when she begins a correspondence with a rancher in Oregon who has advertised for a mail order bride. All she wants to do is get out west, learn how to run a ranch, then own one herself - just like she and her now deceased father had planned. Under other deceptions, she gets a free boat ride out to the west coast from a mail order bride company sending one hundred women in search of husbands.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Gold of a Different Kind, is about one young woman forced into prostitution, along with her sister, and how she was saved by a lonely preacher in Montana who wanted nothing more than a wife to love and cherish. Without his help they would both have more than likely died. Little does he know that when beautiful Rachel arrives on the train and he sees her for the first time, how many more lives are both saved and loved, and how their eventual union will change their town forever.

Charles Dickens on the Oregon Trail, is the story of one lonely young woman who decides to leave the haphazard care of her aunt and sets out on her own, on the long journey west along the Oregon Trail. She rushes to town to try and find someone who will take her amongst the hundreds of people and wagons massing, ready to make the trek across the country. One kind family with seven children take her in and she ends up teaching them, along with a group of other children, and so finds her niche as a teacher on the train.