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A wonderful story about an entrepreneur in old Montana, Weston B. Freeman. He has a checkered and colorful and sometimes sordid past but he finally wants to settle down - and he’s lonely. He advertises for a mail order bride but it’s a long wait, until a woman from England shows up at his bar unannounced. She’s attracted to him immediately and he to her, but a little later a few things surface from his past, then his present, that may throw their arrangement into utter confusion.

The primary purpose of this book is to show you how to leave a Footprint of your Faith behind you; so that even long after you've left this planet; people coming behind you and even generations yet unborn will KNOW that you Walked with God - mainly because you were able to Communicate your Faith! You'll also learn how to leave a Footprint of your Faith in the sands of Time that will be difficult to erase - even in Timeless Eternity!

The young woman has not been completely honest with the Christian man and feels that he may not love her for who she truly is. Will the cowboy see past her troubled history and love her for the woman she truly is?

The Presence of God is of vital importance in our relationship with God; for it is the highest point in our Christian experience! His Presence makes all the difference, for with it; we can overcome anything, face difficult situations with ease, and walk the most dangerous paths of life without fear! The author helps you to discover how you can position yourself to become a carrier of God's Divine Presence and to manifest His Presence every day.

The Rancher's Bull is about a Victorian woman who decides to travel to the lawless US West after losing her estate in England to a ruthless neighbor. She can take care of herself, but was not prepared for her new life and the handsome ranch owner who greeted her, just as she was about to be dropped off from her stagecoach while trying to escape the large Longhorn bull about to ram them all into oblivion.

Amanda and Cecil Get the Boot is about a young man who takes the bullet for an older man and becomes paralyzed. Stricken with guilt, the older man takes the paralyzed one home and because he cannot remember how he became paralyzed, and the older man's daughter doesn't know the circumstances, the older man has to live under a self-imposed lie, which is tearing him apart.

There Is No Need for a Mail Order Husband: Finding Toby down by the Stream is a romance about a young woman who helps out as much as she can on her family's farm, but also loves to take a break when she is able, by riding her horse down to a stream on the edge of their property, and reading the Bible. One day she catches a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of something moving, and worried about wolves, she rides hurriedly back home.

Mail Order Bride: Healed By The Lord, Loved By Her Cowboy takes place during the mid 19th century and revolves around Lillian and her Cowboy suitor, Joseph. The two immediately fall in love with one another and are elated to begin their lives together. However, Lillian becomes stricken with a severe sickness and has been given a small chance to live.

Jane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands between the southwestern valleys of Arizona and the Gila Mountains of New Mexico. The night Billy the Kid died is hauntingly depicted in "Corrido for Billy". "Lady Flo" is a memoir, based on historical fact, of the black wife of an Irish nobleman. "Moving On" depicts a young girl abandoned by her family who finds her way with an itinerant Jewish peddler. And "Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana?" is the winner of the 1995 Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction.

A quick-draw tale from the wild west. T. T. Flynn has long been popular with listeners as a master of the Western story.

Haseloff's characters embody the fundamental values - honor, duty, courage, and family - that prevailed on the American frontier and were instilled in the young Haseloff by her own "heroes", her mother and her grandmother. Her stories, in a sense, dramatize how these values endure when challenged by the adversities and cruelties of frontier existence.

Brother Shotgun is about an old buffalo hunter whose return to the plains after the Civil War keeps being delayed by the needs of a young woman who has taken in a number of orphans.

The Cowboy's Mail Order Bride: A Prostitute's Chance at Love tells the story of Ester, a former prostitute from New York who gets a second chance at life and love. She responds to a mail order bride advertisement and meets Henry Harris, a strong cowboy who lives with his young son on a large ranch. After spending much time with the man and his loving son, Ester is soon proposed to. It is then she realizes that she must reveal her past life and transgressions to the unsuspecting man.

Along The Oregon Trail, is about the hardships and joy, life and death, that five sisters traveling the long road of the Oregon Trail experience, along with many others, including a man and his troubled father. There is sickness as well as health and all along, faith guides the two families through both misadventures and adventures, chance meetings with strangers, and troubled pasts. Love does play a major role in the end.

"Amanda and Cecil Get the Boot" is about a young man who takes the bullet for an older man and becomes paralyzed. "Mail Order Bride: A Little Child Shall Lead Her" is about a widower who was left with a traumatized daughter who cannot see, hear or speak. "The Western Mail Order: 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.

Learning to Fly is a glorious story about a man and woman who correspond after he places an ad for a mail order bride in the newspaper, and she responds. He feels in his heart that she is the one he will marry and start his family with, but as the train arrives in his small California town, he searches and searches for the woman he's grown to love. Finally, the postmaster points her out and the rancher realizes that he may have made a very big mistake.

He is a good Christian man but has an extreme emptiness in heart ever since his wife and children passed away years ago. After placing an advertisement seeking a mail order bride, the man begins corresponding with a fascinating woman from Boston. He is unaware about a single great and important detail in her life. She is a nun and feels led by God to touch this troubled man’s lonely heart.

High Society Woman & The Wolves, is about a high society woman in NYC who gets sent off to Oregon to be the bride of a lonely outpost operator. He is as stunned by her beauty when she gets off the train, as she is by the wilderness surrounding his cabin and home. She doesn’t know how to make a fire or even sweep the floor and her many trunks of fine clothing fill up his small cabin. Amidst the howls of wolves surrounding them in the darkness of the forest, both will have to decide if they can ever make a match.

After watching her mother die from a random gunshot wound, the little girl withdrew into a world of her own, leaving her father unable to cope or understand how he can save her. He decides to advertise for a mail order bride - not one to marry but a teacher to help his daughter get better. A life-changing and emotional event concludes the story.

Maggie Falls Off A Train is about an independent Victorian woman who travels from London to New York, in order to get a business degree and run her father’s business back in the old country. She falls sick and is advised by a doctor to take a semester off from the university and recuperate in California. As she gets off the train she faints, and literally falls into Tom’s arms. She finds out later why he just happened to be at the train station at that very moment in time.