Mail Order Salisa: On The Stagecoach

By Vanessa Carvo

Mail Order Salisa: On The Stagecoach, is all about a young cowboy who passes by a stagecoach on its way into town and sees a group of ragamuffin kids, plus a young woman with a pair of the most startling blue eyes he’s ever seen. When he gets back into town he cannot find her anywhere, gives up, and decides to place an ad for a mail order bride. After receiving a letter from a woman through his ad, he still cannot give up on those blue eyes, but he continues with arranging for the mail order bride. Soon brought into the story is a corrupt mayor who likes to sell attractive young women to boost his campaign funds, the same group of orphans that the young man saw on the stagecoach, and one father’s last wish.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Hart
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310709746

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Mail Order Salisa: On The Stagecoach

By

Vanessa Carvo

Copyright 2014 Vanessa Carvo

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A hot August sun blazed down upon an awkward looking group that was bound for my town in Texas. As I passed by the stagecoach, I found myself glad that I was not the driver, because he had a handful sitting in that coach, and they looked ready to run.

I have traveled all across the plains and had never seen the sight as I did that glorious hot day. Sweat was dripping from my brows for at least three miles as I rode along, and I was just thinking about finding me a spot to rest under the fine shade of an elm or a big old oak tree, while my good old mare grazed a bit.

When I passed by this particular stagecoach, I had to find out why any man with any sense would be hauling a group of young, filthy-looking kids along the way to Texas. Therefore, I rode on by as each dirty-faced kid stuck his or her nose out at me. One of them kids stuck their tongue out at me and I just rode on by, thinking he probably needed a good licking or something.

I got up to the driver and asked him where he was headed and he replied that he was indeed headed for my town. I asked him why would he want to do that and he then told me that they were a number of abandoned orphans, due to some parents dying from cholera or the fever, and some, the parents just up and left them when times got hard.

Arenas CarvoI asked where he was taking them and he claimed he was taking them to a church organization -- some type of orphanage that would see to it that local people could adopt them out and I thought they surely would not be adopted if they didn’t clean them up.

Their faces looked like they had been in a pig roll in a hog pen.

The driver went on to tell me that if the locals do not offer their homes to them, then other nearby counties surely would. I began pondering that, thinking about what would happen if nobody wanted them.

So, I spoke up and said, "If no one wants those kids, then what