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Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"All she wanted -- a gold band. What she got -- a tin star. Maud Overstreet figured she'd grow up, get married, have a house with a white picket fence and more kids than she could count. After thirty-five years, she still hopes it will happen. Now, in 1872, Dry Creek's town council offers her the job of replacement sheriff; she accepts -- with trepidation. Badge now pinned on her frilly blouse, for the first time, she enters a saloon, tastes whiskey,...
Author
Series
Maud Overstreet novel volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful Sunday morning shatters when Dry Creek, California's schoolhouse burns to the ground, the first of many fires. Citizens rally around Sheriff Maud Overstreet, a recently elected 30-something spinster, to help extinguish the flames. Women in the 1870s have little control over their lives and the women of Dry Creek look to Maud as an example of women's progress. Maud soon appoints a woman as fire chief. Then several women choose to run their...