A Pioneer Christmas Collection
Nine Pioneer Christmas Stories by Barbour Books
Follow pioneer Christmas and romance adventures in untamed American lands. Settlers face their first Christmas in a new land with both trepidation and hope. Despite primitive lodgings, these characters learn that wherever the heart dwells, they can find a place to call home.
Of special note, this is Shannon McNear’s debut for book publishing with her story, “Defending Truth.” Have known Shannon for years as a faithful fan of our own Bly books.
What a beautiful cover and impressive company of writers: Lauraine Snelling, Margaret Brownley, Kathleen Fuller, Marcia Gruver, Cynthia Hickey, Vickie McDonough, Michelle Ule, and Anna Urquhart. A perfect book to turn to for fall or winter evening readings. Easy to read and full of encouraging tales to put you in the Christmas spirit. These stories provide warmth and hope, love and faith.
Sample blurbs on these pioneer Christmas stories:
Defending Truth by Shannon McNear set in 1781, North Carolina. Truth Bledsoe cares for her siblings at their mountain farm, while her father fights the British in the East. She tries to remain brave when she finds an emaciated Tory hiding in a cave. Can Micah Elliot convince her his political leanings have changed? And can he be trusted when her family is put in serious danger?
The Cowboy’s Angel by Lauraine Snelling, 1875, Dakota Territory. Jeremiah Jenson, a cowboy on his way to the northern plains to find work, encounters a dying man in the Dakota snow. Belle Stedman’s husband has been gone for six weeks, and she has just given birth to her second child alone in a snow-shrouded dugout. When a stranger appears at her door with a miraculous story, will she welcome him or send him away?
A Pony Express Christmas by Margaret Brownley, 1862, Nebraska Territory. Stranded alone in Nebraska Territory with a broken wagon and two stubborn mules, Ellie-Mae Newman has no way to continue searching for her twin brother. Especially along the deserted Pony Express route. Nor can she return home to Kentucky. Could a man on the verge of being hanged be the answer to her prayers?
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A Christmas Castle by Cynthia Hickey, 1867, Arizona Territory. Married by proxy in Missouri, Annie Morgan sets off for Tombstone, Arizona, to join her new husband as a cattle rancher. But too soon she finds herself a widow with an unexpected daughter. And butts heads with her handsome neighbor.
A Badlands Christmas by Marcia Gruver, 1885, Dakota Territory. Noela Nancarrow and her pampered sister have been dragged into the Badlands by their adventurous father. Now they live penniless in a sod house. When a local rancher invites Noela to a lavish Christmas party, will her holiday spirit return? Or will she learn a lesson far greater from the experience?
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Another western pioneer Christmas story
Check out Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing (Book 1, Stuart Brannon Series) by award-winning western author Stephen Bly. It’s Christmas 1876. For a man who didn’t need another disaster, the hard winter at Broken Arrow Crossing couldn’t have come at a worse time. Stuart Brannon lost his wife, baby son and his cattle. He abandoned his Arizona Territory ranch sick with grief. That’s when the vicious Colorado blizzard struck.
Half-frozen, Brannon stumbles into an isolated stage station at the Crossing where he finds a wounded prospector, an abused and pregnant Indian girl, and naïve gold seekers. Drawn into their desperate plights, Brannon plunges into the dangerous mission to rescue a boy from Indians. That makes him the target of an outlaw band.
Find it here: HARD WINTER AT BROKEN ARROW CROSSING
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As we are approaching Thanksgiving, I was reminded by this podcast of some other pioneers, those who traveled not over prairies and mountains in “prairie schooners”, but those who sailed in sea-going schooners, through all kinds of weather and over calm and rough seas; those who came to a new land seeking freedom and liberty and a chance to worship their God in peace and safety. In many ways, we are all pioneers. And in other ways, we are beholden to those pioneers who came before us to show us The Way. May we all be pioneers to future generations searching for Truth and Life and Eternity.