Bargain Bride

Bargain Bride
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Publisher : Purple House Press
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 1948959712
ISBN-13 : 9781948959711
Rating : 4/5 (711 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bargain Bride by : Evelyn Sibley Lampman

Download or read book Bargain Bride written by Evelyn Sibley Lampman and published by Purple House Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Ginny, almost anything would be better than living with the miserly, good-for-nothing, distant cousins who had claimed her and all she possessed when her parents had died of fever during the wagon-train journey to Oregon Territory. At the age of ten they had married her off-for a very good price-to a much older farmer, because girls were in great demand since married men could take title to twice the amount of land the government allowed a bachelor. On her fifteenth birthday, kindly Mr. Mayhew came to claim his bride. Unfortunately, on that same day he had a stroke and Ginny, the young Widow Mayhew, was left in possession of his well-built house and flourishing farm. This sometimes amusing and often touching story, in which Ginny learns to fend off a stream of suitors who have their eyes only on her rich farmland, gives a vivid sense of life as it was during a brief period in our history when marriage was often considered a practical necessity instead of an affair of the heart.


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