Carol McManus
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IDA: HER LABOR OF LOVE is the true expanded biography of a woman living in Colorado during the late 1800s. Rich in the details of pioneer life, this story enchants, amazes and illuminates the woman's role in civilizing the then raw wilderness of the American West. The reader will be facinated by the life of this frontier woman, experiencing her joys and sorrows along the way.
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Bess is Carol McManus' second historical novel. As with Ida, Carol's award-winning and best-selling first novel, Bess is based on the author's close observations of pioneer women who lived and worked in the first part of the twentieth century in western Colorado. Life in those days was filled with determined women who tried to make a better life for themselves and their families. As opposed to their Victorian counterparts, who were for the most part...