The Voice of the West: Seeds of Survival - Couverture souple

Matson, Rocky

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798995796480

Editeur : Homestead Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

A dead man's debts. A silent house. An impossible trail west.

"She was writing to stay alive."

When her husband Thomas dies suddenly in a bankrupt Boston parlor, Eleanor Briggs is left with nothing - no money, no security, and a future dictated by creditors and pity. But hidden in Thomas's desk is a circular announcing land provisions in the Oregon Territory, and a silence in the law that leaves room for a woman who refuses to be erased.

Leaving behind the polished floors of her past for the mud, iron, and unrelenting sky of the 1847 overland trail, Eleanor and her young daughter Lily join a wagon train that never intended to carry them. Armed with a map, a ledger, and an unyielding resolve, Eleanor must carve her own survival out of a land that measures worth in endurance, ink, and muscle. Every night by lamplight she opens the journal that will become her only inheritance - first in iron-gall ink, then in soot and crushed berries when the bottle runs dry at Fort Hall.

A hundred and seventy-seven years later, a Boston archivist tracing Eleanor's self-inscribed name at the bottom of a wagon-train manifest finds her own quiet life beginning to answer a question the trail wrote first: what does a woman leave behind when the world has already decided she does not count.

The Voice of the West: Seeds of Survival is a sweeping and deeply intimate historical novel about the weight of what we leave behind, the price of a new beginning, and the enduring power of a woman's record when the world tries to look away.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Homestead Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798995796480
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible