TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirkpatrick,Jane
TI  - A light in the wilderness: a novel 
SN  - 0800722310 (pbk.)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - Revell
KW  - African American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Freedmen
KW  - Oregon Territory
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she will follow her husband anywhere. Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover what it means to be truly free in a land that makes promises it cannot fulfill
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