The Station Master's Wife (eBook)

A Scandalous Life Exposed

SUSAN K. DEMARINIS (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
324 Seiten
S.K. DeMarinis (Verlag)
978-1-0878-6875-2 (ISBN)

Infos

From respectable station masters wife to secret madam, Alice was a woman of exceptional resourcefulness in the the face of upheaval, betrayal, and prejudice. In 1887, Ashland, Oregon, this daughter of a prominent pioneer family, witnessed the historic completion of the United States Transcontinental Railroad, a circle of steel that enveloped the United States, when the final Golden Spike was hammered in to place in this small Southern Oregon town.The rails changed everything for this previously isolated hamlet, as well as for Alice. Her family story revealing secret passions, the true grit of a single mother, and betrayals by men, is set among true historical events that span half a century. Meet bygone characters like the Father of the Blues, the inventor of the Curve Ball, the founder of a National Park, a lumber baron who profited from rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, train robbers, bank robbers and sensational divorcees who impacted the turn of the 20th century.

Inhalt

The Station Master's Wife

1887

1850-1884

1885-1888

1888-1890

1891-1895

1895-1896

1896-1901

1901-1903

1904-1907

1908-1909

1910-1913

1914-1918

1919-1923

1924-1929

1929-1931

Epilogue

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: historical fiction • late 19th -early 20th century events • Pioneer era • railroad history • strong female protagonists
• ISBN-10: 1-0878-6875-0 / 1087868750
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0878-6875-2 / 9781087868752