Nine tales of women and winter in pioneering times, bring
such beautiful titles as 'Buckskin Bride' and 'A Pony
Express Christmas'. Yes, it has to be A PIONEER CHRISTMAS
COLLECTION. I loved every story.
'Defending Truth' by Shannon McNear shows young Truth
Bledsoe out hunting to support her family while her father
is away. In the North Carolina woods, she surprises a
soldier who says the battle is over. But he's a Crown
soldier, a Tory, and none of hers. He has fled the field,
and Truth grudgingly shares food as a Christian should, but
she can't bring herself either to tell on him or shelter
him. She might just drop him out some more food, that's
all. Over the next week Will tells her of his life and
Truth explains that her father bought the farmland fairly
from the Cherokee, but the Crown refuses to recognise their
right to settle. Will has doubts as to where his loyalties
lie, and has no wish to return to war. But how can he
survive a Carolina winter?
'The Calling' by Kathleen Fuller focuses on an inn located
in Unionville, Ohio, where a young man sincerely admires
the Irish innkeeper's daughter, but to obey his parents he
is going to have to take up his calling and become a
circuit preacher in the western territories. Snow is
falling heavily but the stage still runs to Cleveland, and
the young preacher must be on it.
'A Silent Night' by Anna Urquhart shows that Lorna, a young
mother widowed in 1830 in Michigan Territory is at the
mercy of the weather - and of men who decide that she'll do
as a wife. Determined to survive and with the encouragement
of older Sissy, she tries to provide for her children
alone. Christmas will be rather different this year.
As for the 'Pony Express Christmas', by Margaret Brownley,
not only do we get a plucky girl adventuring to find her
brother, but quotations from the 1860s, such as 'Left my
infant on the trale, along with a peace of my hart,"
and 'Can't stay here. Can't go back. Gotta keep going.' At
least our heroine finds it's too cold for snakes.
This collection brought me the scent of Christmas cooking
and the tingle of snow. There's excitement, occasional
violence and good fellowship. A PIONEER CHRISTMAS
COLLECTION is writing of impressive quality by seven female
authors and any reader would be glad to find this under the
Christmas tree.
Journey along with American settlers who learn that despite
where the trail takes them or how primitive their lodgings
may be Christmas is all about the heart. Determined to honor
Christ�s birth, these pioneers find a way to make
Christmas
happen in places like a cave, a tipi, and a dugout. Modern
readers will enjoy a peek into life before commercialism
took over the sacred day, distracting us from the true
blessings of faith, hope, and love. Enjoy nine original
novellas of Christmas romance as penned from many of
today�s
leading Christian authors, including Lauraine Snelling,
Kathleen Fuller, and Vickie McDonough.
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