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There Is No Need for a Mail Order Husband: Finding Toby down by the Stream is a romance about a young woman who helps out as much as she can on her family's farm, but also loves to take a break when she is able, by riding her horse down to a stream on the edge of their property, and reading the Bible. One day she catches a glimpse out of the corner of her eye of something moving, and worried about wolves, she rides hurriedly back home.

The year is 1877. Ester had been married before, and she wasn't sure that she wanted to repeat the experience. Her heart had turned jaded, and her former husband's abusive treatment had left her too afraid to even want to find love again. Living in Austin, Texas, she never thought she would find true love. After forming a sudden relationship with a cowboy seeking a mail order bride, Ester feels led by God to travel to California and meet this potential husband.

God's Way of Sending a Mail Order Husband: Abby, William, and the Little Man is about young Abby who just loves horses. She is out riding one day when she hears a thud and then a groan and then a mustang runs right past her and her mare. She finds out that the thud was the son of a neighboring rancher who she hasn't seen for years. When she looks into his gray eyes, she is hooked.

Mail Order Bride: Sheriff Nathan Falls In Love With Drunken Lizzie, presents us with is the story of a sheriff in California, a good Christian man, who tries to help and look after everyone in the small town he works in, including the local drunk. When he asks his mother back east if she knows any woman who would like to live in California and be his bride she sends him someone but Nathan is shocked when a fiery woman shows up on the train, and it's very evident that besides being beautiful, she is also very tipsy.

Mail Order Bride: Healed By The Lord, Loved By Her Cowboy takes place during the mid 19th century and revolves around Lillian and her Cowboy suitor, Joseph. The two immediately fall in love with one another and are elated to begin their lives together. However, Lillian becomes stricken with a severe sickness and has been given a small chance to live.

Mail Order Husband: To the Ranch and Meeting Virginia & Her Hidden Sister is about a lonely dockworker who travels west to meet a woman living on a rundown ranch, hoping to find love and companionship with a Christian woman. After a very brief amount of time, he finds himself in love. There is only one obstacle; he has never met her sister who lives in a bedroom upstairs. As he declares his love, events unfold that provide an emotional ending to the tale.

Mail Order Husband: Going to Meet Rebecca, Worth More than Rubies is a wonderful story about a man who heads for Colorado and a family he intends to get to know if they will have him, as he is answered a mail order groom wanted ad. He is a widower and she is a widow and their story after that is an emotional and satisfying one about family, faith, and the love for God.

Mail Order Bride: Two Sisters and the Family Quilt Go West for Love is the story of two sisters sent by their parents to California, where one is to be a mail order bride. On the train journey they meet two men who seem strangely familiar and along the way, grow to like them. The one intended mail order bride fights her feelings, knowing that she is to be married as soon as she gets to the west coast, but it is very hard when the handsome stranger seems to be interested in her, as well.

Mail Order Bride: Emily Seeks out the Traveling Preacher for Love is the emotional story of a Southern woman, right before the Civil War, who is determined to find a childhood sweetheart in a traveling preacher. When he told her that his life was being an evangelist and that traveling across the country wasn't exactly a good life for a Southern lady, she told him that she wanted to join him in his ministry, as she had attended school and learned all about preaching.

Mail Order Bride: Tainted on Her Way to the Colorado Cowboy tells the story of a young woman's journey to Colorado in 1865. She intended on meeting the love of her life after answering an ad in a mail order bride catalogue, but encountered a trying ordeal along the way. Sarah will need to cling to the Lord more than ever as she continues her path toward her Colorado cowboy and the Lord's plan of matrimony.

Mail Order Bride: Emma's Temptation: A Western Historical Christian Romance Story tells the story of Emma taking a leap of faith by responding to a mail-order bride advertisement. Her original motive: financial security to assist her struggling younger siblings. While meeting her cowboy suitor, she begins to genuinely fall in love with the Christian man. She soon meets a rival ranch owner of her cowboy who presents an offer to make her wealthy. The only problem; it involves betraying the trust of her soon-to-be husband.

Mail Order Bride: Sent by God to the California Cowboy is about a young woman in New York City who has fallen onto hard times after being released from the orphanage she had been in for a majority of her life. Two kind women take her into a halfway house, but there is reason for her to leave New York immediately. The only way the women feel they can keep her safe is to ship her off to California where their nephew, they tell her, needs a good housekeeper and cook for his ranch.

Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way, she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child. After finally arriving at her cowboy's ranch, she falls for the handsome man but knows she must soon reveal her unfortunate circumstance.

Mail Order Bride: Jasmine's Lonely Cowboy is an emotional story about a lonely man with children who sends away for a mail order bride, and in return, gets so much more than he expected.

The longer that Jay Gould was chief shareholder of Union Pacific, the more advancements for the railroad and for his own system of roads he procured. His adversaries in this drama are the executives of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad who disputed the rates and branches of the Iowa Pool of railroads with him. There are also reconcilements in this play, first with Carlos Greeley of the Kansas Pacific bondholders and the other with Henry Villard.

This novelette by Vanessa Carvo contains powerful Christian influences, love, family and other related themes meant to make you smile! Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child.

"Amanda and Cecil Get the Boot" is about a young man who takes the bullet for an older man and becomes paralyzed. "Mail Order Bride: A Little Child Shall Lead Her" is about a widower who was left with a traumatized daughter who cannot see, hear or speak. "The Western Mail Order: Garret and Meredith": In Montana's Bitterroot Foothills, is the story of a horse rancher who desires a life full of love and marriage, but he is at a loss as to where to find a potential bride.