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This Road We Traveled
Christian historical fiction
This Road We Traveled
In 1846, sixty-six-year-old Tabitha Brown refuses to remain in Missouri when her adult children decide to take their families to Oregon. She hires her own wagon and joins three generations of Brown women on a journey made more perilous by illness, disagreements, and a disastrous choice of route. Reaching Oregon demands endurance, but Tabby's work afterward helps create educational and charitable opportunities in the new territory. Spirited and based on true events, this pioneer novel suits readers who enjoy the Oregon Trail, older heroines, multigenerational families, survival history, and stories about women whose influence grows rather than diminishes with age.
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Frontier travel peril; illness and physical disability; severe weather and river crossings; death and grief; family conflict; hunger and exhaustion.
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