Husbands Lost, Then Found (A Pair Of Christian Western Romances)
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Along The Oregon Trail: Mary And Baby Joseph Meet Henry, Jack Of All Trades; A woman with nothing but her baby joins a wagon train and then meets a mysterious carpenter along the way.The Western Mail Order Bride: James Gets His Georgia Peach' A man gets a life partner and helper when he asks for a mail order bride.
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Husbands Lost, Then Found (A Pair Of Christian Western Romances) - Helen Keating
Husbands Lost, Then Found (A Pair Of Christian Western Romances)
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Helen Keating
Copyright 2015 Helen Keating
Along The Oregon Trail: Mary And Baby Joseph Meet Henry, Jack Of All Trades
The Western Mail Order Bride: James Gets His Georgia Peach
Along The Oregon Trail: Mary And Baby Joseph Meet Henry, Jack Of All Trades
The first couple of weeks or so on the trail were easy enough; pleasant even. The roads were well cut and the riding was for the most part easy. The territories surrounding the Missouri Valley were well established and a person could get anything they needed quickly and cheap enough and then have their little prairie schooner rolling in line again without ever falling behind too much.
For Mary though, it was always hard. She had wished for a hard trip. The easy ride only gave her mind the space to wander off toward all the suffering in her life. Mary’s husband had passed on a year before.
She had married young. Johnny had been the only man that Mary had ever loved and one of the few that she had even really known. Mary knew of course that things were rough for lots of folks. In the wild territories, many had suffered some terrible loss of their own. It had been rough living all around and many folks had it far worse than she did. She couldn't help but feel this terrible hurt though.
Their baby had been born eight months after Johnny was killed. At the time, Mary hadn't been sure that she was with child yet. When those Indians came and took his life, though, Johnny entered the next world not even knowing that he had a son on the way.
Mary mostly blamed herself for this. She could hardly harbor much hatred for the Indians who had killed Johnny. When it came to retaliation for the wretched misdeeds of the other, neither whites nor Indians tended to be very discerning of who exactly was on the receiving end of their retribution.
Mary regretted only that the world was so wicked.
When the Indians had come, clearly on the warpath, Johnny took up his guns without a second thought or moment’s hesitation. He was only trying to protect his wife, which he did. He picked off two from far out with his long rifle as the Indians rode in on them.
He'd dispatched two more to the afterlife with his pistol as they neared and then flung himself between the women and a group of Indians with nothing but his buck knife. Johnny had to have known that it was a fight he didn't stand any chance of walking away from, but he bought those women enough time to get to the cover of the soldiers that had come riding in from the nearby fort, when their scouts had reported spotting the band of rogues on the warpath.
The women were saved but the soldiers arrived just a little too late for Johnny. Being a world away from any real family, Mary had to bury him herself. It wasn’t long after that when her belly started to round over and it was clear that she was with child.
There was nothing left for Mary there anymore; only misery. While she hated to leave her husband’s final resting place so far behind her, she vowed to give her son something more. She gathered what she could on her own.
The soldiers back at the fort, feeling mighty low for watching this poor woman’s husband slain before their very eyes, took up a little collection for her and with the calling in of a few favors they’d arranged for her to receive a team of eight strong oxen when she got to the Missouri Valley.
What Mary had all together sure wasn’t much but it was enough to get a light schooner and a few basic supplies. With a strength and determination that she could only attribute to the grace of God, Mary made her way across the territories to the Valley and with her baby on her hip she procured and pieced together enough of the bare bones equipment and supplies to get started on the trail.
Mary was naturally a little self-conscious about her meager provisions for the first part of the trail. Most of the others around her were married couples or stalwart single men. There were a few families on the trail and some extended families of course. Almost all the travelers, though, were loaded down with a whole lot more than Mary had the means for.
She didn’t have any spare wagon wheel strapped to the back of the schooner, and no extra wagon tongues. Her oxen were good but they were scrawny and ill tempered compared to some of the teams of ten or twelve fine beasts that other folks had.
There certainly wasn’t much food either. She fed the baby from her breast and ate as little as she could from her paltry supply. She did have her husband’s long rifle with her though and she imagined herself killing a deer or a moose--maybe. She’d never fired a gun though and folks couldn’t think how Mary could hunt too well with her baby on her hip.
Mary could see in the way some of them looked at her that many folks didn’t expect her and her baby to make it all that far along the trail with what they had. Mary started to wonder about it a little herself. She did her best though to do like she’d been taught and not to covet what others might have.
After a week on the trail a man joined the wagon train that made Mary feel like she was stocked with every frivolity the world could hold. His schooner looked like it had been pieced