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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946-     Subjects     Freedmen -- Fiction.     Women, Black -- Fiction.     Wagon trains -- Fiction.     Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.     Kalapuya Indians -- Fiction.     Oregon Territory -- History -- Fiction.     Oregon National Historic Trail -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946-       by title:      A light in the wilde...       by call number:      FICTION KIR     Search the Web     Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946-     Freedmen -- Fiction.     Women, Black -- Fiction.     Wagon trains -- Fiction.     Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.     Kalapuya Indians -- Fiction.     Oregon Territory -- History -- Fiction.     Oregon National Historic Trail -- Fiction.       MARC Display

A light in the wilderness : a novel / Jane Kirkpatrick. by Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946- Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2014. Call #: FICTION KIR Subjects Freedmen -- Fiction.   Women, Black -- Fiction.   Wagon trains -- Fiction.   Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction.   Kalapuya Indians -- Fiction.   Oregon Territory -- History -- Fiction.   Oregon National Historic Trail -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780800722319 (trade pbk.) Description:  314 p. : maps ; 22 cm. Notes:  "Based on a true story." Includes Author's note (pages 295-300), An interview with the author (pages 305-30), and Book discussion questions (pages 313-314). Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311). Summary:  1840s: "Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come West with him. Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows she will follow him anywhere--even when the trek exacts a terrible cost. Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. She spends her time trying to impart the wisdom and ways of her people to her grandson. But she will soon have another person to care for. As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover what it means to be truly free in a land that makes promises it cannot fulfill. This multilayered story from bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick will grip readers' hearts and minds as they travel with Letitia on the dusty and dangerous Oregon trail into the boundless American West."--Page [4] of cover. Genre:  Black fiction. Historical fiction. Western stories. Christian fiction. Biographical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION KIR Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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