Grand Canyon Brides: Four Harvey Girls Work to Tame the Old West Along the Rails

by Dianne Christner, Darlene Mindrup, Pamela Kaye Tracy, et al.

Book Overview

Committing themselves to at least a six-month contract with the Fred Harvey Company in 1908, four young women are determined to make a new start in Arizona while waiting tables at a restaurant along... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597890723
• ISBN13: 9781597890724
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Thoroughly Enjoyed All Four Stories!

I can't resist historical romance that features the Harvey Girls of the Fred Harvey Restaurants,so I had check out this one,and I was very pleased with each story and author. Now I'm checking for novel-length book by these authors. For others who would enjoy historical romance with more info on The Harvey Girls,I highly recommend the three books in The Westward Chronicles by Tracie Peterson,but this book will not disappoint.

Wonderful Historical Christian Romance taking place in a restaurant near the Grand Canyon

If you enjoy reading love stories about Christians that take place in different time periods, than this is a book for you! It takes place in the mid 1800's. There are four short novellas in this one book. About 90 pages per story and it is real easy reading. The first story is about this girl working at the Harvey restaurant, yet she seems to be in no need of money, or is she? She caught the manager's eye first because she was a lousy waitress, second because she was beautiful and helped him ti take care of his daughter. What is her reason for working there? What is she running from? The second story invloves another waitress from the Harbey reataurant only that she witnesses an attempted train robbery and falls for the ranger on the train. She struggles with her love and the question of how can they live with their situation. The third story is about a young girl who wants to provvide for her family. Except shedoesn't plan on doing it as a waitress, she is on the search for a wealthy man to come find her and take her away from the Harvey restaurant and marry her. The only problem is she fell in love with the one man who wasn't wealthy, or was he? The fourth story is about this sad woman who keeps to herself and ran away from her husband, whom she is afraid of. His brother comes looking for her and wants her to come back to they family. Does he have his own reasons for this? What happends when she finds out the reasons she hasn't been feeling well? What will her husband do to her for running away? Why did she run away in the first place? These novellas were all so enjoyable, but keep in mind if you don't want to read about faith, God, and salvation, these books aren't for you. They have Christian undertones, not sermons. But great sources of inspiration.

Grand Canyon Brides

I would love to read more historical Christ centered short stories such as these with the same authors