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Showing posts with label Go West. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 15, 2017
Monday, July 10, 2017
Onward and Westward!
About the Book
After duty as an ambulance driver in World War I, Ellie
Morgan returns to Chicago to take up her share of the work in her grandparents’
department store. Ellie doesn’t want to alienate her family or disappoint them,
but despite a six year effort to settle in, she feels increasingly trapped in
store routine. Meanwhile, her grandmother urges her to marry a local politician
and help him succeed in his chosen field. Ellie’s grandfather, however, wants
to see her happy and independent. “Go West, young woman, go west,” he advises
paraphrasing a popular quotation of the day. So with Granddad’s help, Ellie
secures a job on a ranch in Colorado and sets out to prove that she has the
necessary character to succeed at a third vocation.
When Aldon Leitzinger meets Ellie’s train in Clifton
Colorado, he introduces himself as the foreman of the ranch. But the more
people Ellie meets in the community, the more apparent it becomes that she is
in demand to fill a number of roles for which she is not prepared. Desperate to
prove herself, she settles in to please everyone, a task that puts her at risk
of failure in every attempt at finding a new and happier life.
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