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Hardcover Ordinary Woman Book

ISBN: 0312865287

ISBN13: 9780312865283

An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey

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In the spring of 1841, a courageous young woman named Nancy Kelsey set out her husband, Ben, and infant daughter, Martha Ann, from their Missouri homestead on a harrowing track that would lead her into the pages of history. With a small band of pioneers, Nancy and Ben blazed a trail across a wild and unforgiving continent to find a new life in the golden lands of California. Historical novelist Cecelia Hollnd gives us an intimate portrait of a remarkable woman who played a crucial role in the settlement of the West. Nancy Kelsey was a courageous young pioneer, and the first American woman to set foot in California. drawing upon Nancy's own accounts of her harrowing journey, as well as the writings of those who traveled with her, Holland has crafted a stunning biography of this amazing woman that is filled with all of the action, passion, danger, and determination that have made her novels bestsellers around the world. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
A good read

The first two-thirds of this book tells of the overland journey of a young woman, Nancy Kelsey, and a group of pioneers who leave Missouri heading for California. Their journey is exciting and full of danger and hardship. It is the story of a specific group of people, and their story is unique in many ways. But, in other ways, it is a familiar story that we have come to know from books and movies over the years. What I found...

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Rated 5 stars
Fabulous

A fabulous retelling of pioneer history without the unnecessary dramatization. Story created from actual journals written by the pioneers. Shows what real pioneer women were made of. Can't recommend it enough.

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She is not an ordinary woman

In 1841 Ben Kelsey, his teenage wife Nancy, and their infant leave Missouri for California. Instead of heading southwest down the Santa Fe trail, the Kelsey trio takes the shortest route, a straight line through the Plains, the Rockies, the Great Western Desert, and the Sierra Nevada range. This path happens to be the most dangerous between the threat of Indians and hostile climate.However, Nancy's arrival frightens the...

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