Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Bargain Bride

Bargain Bride

Evelyn Sibley Lampman
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Unabridged edition newly republished by Purple House Press.

To Ginny, almost anything would be better than living with the miserly, good-for-nothing, distant cousins who had claimed her and all she possessed when her parents had died of fever during the wagon-train journey to Oregon Territory.

At the age of ten they had married her off—for a very good price—to a much older farmer, because girls were in great demand since married men could take title to twice the amount of land the government allowed a bachelor. On her fifteenth birthday, kindly Mr. Mayhew came to claim his bride. Unfortunately, on that same day he died of a stroke and Ginny, the young Widow Mayhew, was left in possession of his well-built house and flourishing farm.

This touching story, in which Ginny learns to fend off a stream of suitors who have their eyes only on her rich farmland, gives a vivid sense of life as it was during a brief period in our history when marriage was often considered a practical necessity instead of an affair of the heart.
Language
English
Pages
180
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Macmillan Publishing Company
Release
March 28, 1981
ISBN
0689704933
ISBN 13
9780689704932

Bargain Bride

Evelyn Sibley Lampman
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Unabridged edition newly republished by Purple House Press.

To Ginny, almost anything would be better than living with the miserly, good-for-nothing, distant cousins who had claimed her and all she possessed when her parents had died of fever during the wagon-train journey to Oregon Territory.

At the age of ten they had married her off—for a very good price—to a much older farmer, because girls were in great demand since married men could take title to twice the amount of land the government allowed a bachelor. On her fifteenth birthday, kindly Mr. Mayhew came to claim his bride. Unfortunately, on that same day he died of a stroke and Ginny, the young Widow Mayhew, was left in possession of his well-built house and flourishing farm.

This touching story, in which Ginny learns to fend off a stream of suitors who have their eyes only on her rich farmland, gives a vivid sense of life as it was during a brief period in our history when marriage was often considered a practical necessity instead of an affair of the heart.
Language
English
Pages
180
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Macmillan Publishing Company
Release
March 28, 1981
ISBN
0689704933
ISBN 13
9780689704932

More books from Evelyn Sibley Lampman

Once Upon The Little Big Horn

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Rock Hounds

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Special Year

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Half-Breed

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Tree Wagon (Weekly Reader Children's Book Club)

2.8/5 ( ratings)

The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs (The Shy Stegosaurus #2)

2.8/5 ( ratings)

The Year Of Small Shadow

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Of Mikes and Men

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Rusty's Space Ship

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Rattlesnake Cave

2.8/5 ( ratings)

The Potlatch Family

2.8/5 ( ratings)

The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (The Shy Stegosaurus #1)

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Treasure Mountain

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Three Knocks on the Wall

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Tree Wagon

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Crazy Creek

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader