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April 28, 2019

It’s Yee-Haw Day!

  Welcome to Yee-Haw Day, the once-a-month day we’ve reserved to share our news with you – all sorts of fun news! So check out the post below to get the details on the kinds of things that make us go Yee-Haw!! Linda Broday Tomorrow is release day for Book #2 in my Outlaw Mail […]


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Published on April 28, 2019 22:16

Wendy May Andrews Has a Winner!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of orphan trains, Miss Wendy! We loved it! And now for the drawing……Drumroll……… Winner of the digital copy of Sophie is………… SHERRY ALLMAN Oh my goodness! Congratulations, Sherry! Miss Wendy will contact you so keep your eyes peeled. Tomorrow is YeeHaw Day! Everyone head over and check out the […]


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Published on April 28, 2019 10:12

April 25, 2019

Orphan Train Sweet Romances, and Train Travel in 1855

Hello everyone, Wendy May Andrews here. When I was planning this series I had to give a great deal of thought to the timing. I chose to set the series in 1855. I didn’t want to address any of the issues connected with the war so I had to make it as early as possible, but […]


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Published on April 25, 2019 22:15

April 24, 2019

Not Always by Choice: Mail-Order Brides

I love reading and writing mail-order bride stories set in the Old West.  I’m happy to say that next month my next mail-order bride story The Cowboy Meets His Match will be published. And boy, oh, boy, does that couple ever clash! It’s hard to imagine a young woman traveling west to marry a man […]


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Published on April 24, 2019 23:00

Wendy May Andrews Visits on Friday!

Miss Wendy May Andrews will visit here on Friday, April 26, 2019! How much do you know about Orphan Trains and why they filled a great need? Miss Wendy will tell us. She’ll give away a digital version of her new book Sophie! This is Book 2 of her Orphan Train series and I know […]


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Published on April 24, 2019 20:00

April 23, 2019

Mary Edwards Walker–Lady Doctor, Spy, POW, Activist

Mary Edwards Walker was a doctor, a Civil War POW and alleged spy, and she is the only woman to have ever earned a Congressional Medal of Honor. She was also a “radical” feminist activist, and an advocate of comfortable dress for women. Mary was born in 1832 in Oswego, New York to a family […]


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Published on April 23, 2019 23:00

Kit Has a Winner!

Woohoo! Caryl Kane, you’re my winner! You’ve won a free e-copy of my soon to be released book, The Sailor and the Suffragette! 


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Published on April 23, 2019 22:53

The Stagecoach Driver and a Giveaway!

  Hi! Kit Morgan here and today I want to talk a little about the stagecoach driver! Idolized by small boys, envied by grown men and held in awe by women, the stagecoach driver was king of his realm — or so says Cheryl Ann Stamp, who wrote a wonderful book on the stage coaches […]


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Published on April 23, 2019 00:30

The StageCoach Driver and a Giveaway!

  Hi! Kit Morgan here and today I want to talk a little about the stagecoach driver! Idolized by small boys, envied by grown men and held in awe by women, the stagecoach driver was king of his realm — or so says Cheryl Ann Stamp, who wrote a wonderful book on the stage coaches […]


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Published on April 23, 2019 00:30

April 22, 2019

Pam’s Game Winner!

  My winner of the This or That game is   Glenda Kinard   It was great fun to read all your challenge questions! Be sure to come back and play another game on May 20th with   Ruth Logan Herne!  


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Published on April 22, 2019 23:00