LIBROS DEL AUTOR: Mary Barmeyer O'Brien

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  • Heart of the Trail
    Mary Barmeyer O'Brien / Mary Barmeyer O’Brien
    Updated and expanded for its twentieth anniversary—the beloved book that tells the stories of the women who traveled West. In Heart of the Trail Mary Barmeyer O'Brien beautifully captures the triumphs and tribulations of women who crossed the American frontier by wagon during the great Western migration of the mid nineteenth century. While their stories are widely different...
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    15,15 €

  • The Promise of the West
    Mary Barmeyer O’Brien / O'Brien
    Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid-1800s to forge a new life. Accompanying them were their children, wide-eyed and excited about the adventures that awaited them as they headed toward the setting sun. Little did they know how treacherous and grueling the trip would be. The toil and danger of o...
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    14,87 €

  • May
    Barmeyer Mary O'Brien / Mary Barmeyer O’Brien
    An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved — alone — to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her homemade berry pies and hot dishes. Before long, she was a well-known part of the fledgling mining district.May, a large, outspoken woman who ...
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    14,83 €

  • Outlasting the Trail
    Mary Barmeyer O’Brien / O'Brien
    Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor’s wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband’s wishes. Trading in her home for canvas roof and wheels, Mary, her husband, and their three children set out on the arduous trek westward to California.Shortly into their travels west, it ...
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    14,15 €