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Pioneers Aura Lee and Daniel Hollingworth and entrepreneur Graham Chapman and his wife Lucinda are at the center of an intense battle between Kansas homesteaders and ambitious, often unscrupulous town builders
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Charlotte Hinger won the Western Writers of America Medicine Bearer’s award for Come Spring and was a semi-finalist for the Spur Award. She has published a number of mystery short stories. “The Family Rose,” which first appeared in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, was later reprinted in two anthologies, Murder on the Verandah and Murder to Music. She was the editor of two comprehensive hardcover volumes of family/county histories and is a member of the international history honor society Phi Alpha Theta. She has served on the board of the Kansas State Historical Society and is on the editorial board of Heritage of the Great Plains, published by Emporia State University. Hinger writes non-fiction about contemporary and historical issues in the rural west as diverse as the modern day Ku Klux Klan and the history of black farmers. She does extensive public speaking. She writes non-fiction about contemporary and historical issues in the rural west. She has a flaming state loyalty to her native Kansas.
From Publishers Weekly
The plains of Kansas in the 1880s serve as background to this first novel of homesteading life. In a situation reminiscent of Oklahoma!, the homesteaders vie for land with the town-buildersgrit and determination pitted against the wily, avaricious interests of the railroads. Fragile, artistic Aura Lee leaves her comfortable existence in St. Jo to live with her new husband, Daniel Hollingworth, in a primitive soddy on the prairie. The well-detailed rigors of daily life on the plains stretch Aura Lee to her limits, and when Daniel is forced to do railroad work to tide them over another season, she moves to a nearby embryonic town. Gateway City is the project of Graham Chapman, an unscrupulous entrepreneur who pursues Aura Lee and the Hollingworth homestead; Daniel is meanwhile seduced by the Valkyrian Lucinda, whose passion and stamina are fueled by the land's hardships. The story is painted in broad strokes and primary colors, but, to Hinger's credit, she does not oversimplify the characters or their conflicts. This is the first volume of a trilogy about the Hollingworth family. Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club selection.
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