Kids & Families of the Old West - E-book - ePub

A Woman's Heart Is Beautiful - An amputee woman decides to move from Chicago to North Dakota and become both a teacher and then hopefully, a mail order bride. A Miracle for the Orphan from New York - An orphan on the run from police, boards a train headed somewhere and then takes refuge in a compartment where an older woman sits quietly. Accidental Love - A woman from Nebraska makes a contract to marry a cowboy in California but along the way there's an accident with the stagecoach she's in, and she's the only passenger.
A New Family Is Formed Along the Oregon Trail, is the story of a young woman who lost her parents at the start of their journey west along the Oregon Trail. Close to her as she travels along, is a group of young men and boys who had also lost their parents and had decided to make a new beginning in the west, raising cattle. While bathing at the river one day the woman hears, then sees, a baby crying and she retrieves a young Native American infant found propped up against a tree.