The Diary of Mattie Spenser
by:
Sandra Dallas (author)
No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious...
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No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant stranger. As she and Luke make life together on the harsh and beautiful plains, Mattie learns some bitter truths about her husband and the girl he lieft behind and finds love where she least expects it. Dramatic and suspenseful, this is an unforgettable story of hardship, friendship and survival.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312187101 (0312187106)
ASIN: 312187106
Publish date: May 15th 1998
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
I would not have been able to withstand the number of sad events in this story had it not been for Mattie's humor. She's a lovable protagonist who didn't deserve the pain she was forced to endure. One moment in the story that stuck with me was the revelation that it was illegal for men to abuse an...
This is a fascinating story of the Colorado Territory right after the Civil War. We see the burdens the women of the first settlements encountered through the fictional diary of Mattie Spenser This book was especially interesting to me because in my genealogy research I had several ancestors who l...
The story read very easily and I enjoyed it for the most part, particularly the character of Mattie Spenser. Where the book fell short for me is in the abrupt ending. After building the story to the crisis point in Mattie's marriage, the author leaves it to our imaginations to figure out how it all ...
The story read very easily and I enjoyed it for the most part, particularly the character of Mattie Spenser. Where the book fell short for me is in the abrupt ending. After building the story to the crisis point in Mattie's marriage, the author leaves it to our imaginations to figure out how it all ...
Another great book by Sandra Dallas! I have had this on my bookshelf for quite a while and now I'm sorry I didn't get to it sooner!