TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirkpatrick,Jane
TI  - One More River to Cross
SN  - 1643583581
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Thordike, Maine
PB  - Center Point Large Print
KW  - Survival
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Wagon trains
KW  - Overland journeys to the Pacific
KW  - Christian fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Western fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Large type books
N2  - Based on true events, this compelling survival story by  award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844; 1844. The Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the  first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mostly Irish Catholics, the party sought religious freedom and education in the mission-dominated land. When a heavy snowstorm hits in October, the party separates in three directions. Now young Mary Sullivan, newlywed Sarah Montgomery, widowed Ellen Murphy, and her pregnant sister-in-law Maolisa each risks losing those they loved. Two women and four men go overland around Lake Tahoe, three men stay to guard the heaviest wagons-- and eight women and seventeen children, huddled in a cabin at the headwaters of the Yuba River. Waiting for rescue ... or death. -- adapted from back cover
ER  -