Sweetbriar Autumn (Seattle Sweetbriar Series #5) - Softcover

Wilbee, Brenda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800756614 ISBN 13: 9780800756611

Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co, 1998

Synopsis

Offers a fictional account of the earliest establishment of the city of Seattle, and the life of Louisa Boren Denny and her husband amid Native American warfare

About this title

From the Publisher

History & Love Continue To Unfold In Seattle's Early Days! 600,000 SOLD!

Sweetbriar Autumn is Brenda Wilbee's fifth book in her Seattle Sweetbriar Series--the true story of Louisa Boren and David Denny, Seattle's founding family.

From the Author

Why "SWEETBRIAR?"

The Boren and Denny families migrated west from Cherry Grove, Illinois, in the year 1851, where destiny carved for them a place in history--that of being the founders of one of the world's busiest deepwater seaports: Seattle, Washington.

Louisa Boren carried with her some sweetbriar seeds. They were her promise of spring, of better times. Today Seattle spreads over the carved-out forests, and her sweetbriar grows wild along the beaches, tiny bits of pink in spring green, a gentle reminder of days before.

So much of what is Seattle is because of the Denny family. Street names are the most obvious: Denny Way, James Street, Boren Avenue. Other things, not quite so obvious but well recognized, are some of the city parks, Denny Hill, and the University of Washington. But sadly, so much as been lost and forgotten. Arthur Denny, considered the Father of Seattle, in a preface to a small book he wrote in 1888, stated:

"Let it be the pride of old settlers to state the truth. It is no time for romancing or painting fancy sketches when we are nearing the end of our voyage. The work is too serious for fiction."

The old settlers have crossed over. The facts lie buried with the settlers or shelved in dusty order on library stacks. This series, SEATTLE SWEETBRIAR, is the recreated story of those forgotten men and women. Despite Arthur's admonition to state nothing but facts, I have taken the facts as they are known, romanticized upon them, and painted a fancy sketch.

I hope to bring Arthur's "old settlers" out of their graves and off the shelves, to bring alive again the beginnings of an important American city. Over a hundred years "after the fact" perhaps the sound of wind can be brought back, the call of the gulls, the wetness of the rain, the throb of the heart. Perhaps Louisa Boren's story can live again. Her sweetbriar still grows--the scent still rides the sea breeze in spring.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0800756614
• ISBN 13: 9780800756611
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 271