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Fireweed

Carolyn Evans Campbell

出版	Writers Media, 2021-08-16
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Historical / General
ISBN	17371162009781737116202
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zM6YzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The FIREWEED saga spans fifteen years, from 1848 to 1863.Jenna Daggett is orphaned on the Oregon Trail, and begins a journey intowomanhood in a young, volatile American west.She first faces reality under the cruel guardianship of zealot missionaries,Faithful and Cora Squibb. Blue, the wagon-master, rescues Jenna andaccompanies her to Sutter's Fort where she is placed in the care of DarceyHiggins, a plump, lively redhead hungry for gold and a man to love.Harsh circumstances force Jenna to Hacienda San Gabriel and thetutelage of a bitter spinster, Dona Juana de Archuleta, who seeks revengefor Mexico's defeat by the United States.Growing up in the conflict of two cultures, Jenna matures into a strongwoman with a passion for Enrique, the Dona's murderous nephew, andenchantment with Danny McDaniels, a bewitching Irishman in Monterey.After inheriting the Archuleta land, she is thrown into San Francisco'sgreed and violence, only to emerge a rich entrepreneur speculating incattle, gold, railroads and real estate.Then, in 1863, at the height of the American Civil War, Jenna traversesthe plains back to Colorado with a child and a dog, into an unexpectedclimax to her saga.