| The Cherokee Trail Contributor(s): L'Amour, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553270478 ISBN-13: 9780553270471 Publisher: Bantam OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: January 1996 Annotation: It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they faced the constant danger of attacks by outlaws and marauding Indians. Yet, with the support of a spirited Irish woman, a fearless orphan boy, and, most of all, the mysterious gunman Temple Boone, Mary found the courage to shape her station into a vital stop on America's westward journey. Until the vicious murderer whose bloody rampages had stained her past suddenly stalked Mary Breydon to Cherokee Station. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 82090288 |
| Lexile Measure: 680 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 4.24" W x 6.94" (0.27 lbs) 178 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mountains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Colorado - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 7056 Reading Level: 5.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A woman ahead of her time, Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, Mary must provide for her young daughter by running a stage coach station on the Cherokee Trail. With the help of an Irish maid and a mysterious stranger, Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have a difficult time overcoming. After firing the previous station manager with the aid of a bullwhip, she must track down stolen horses, care for a wayward boy, and defend against Indians. If that wasn't enough, she also has to protect herself from the man who murdered her husband--and is coming for Mary next. |