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Charlotte Hinger

    Charlotte Hinger es una historiadora centrada en el Oeste estadounidense, particularmente en el oeste de Kansas. Con experiencia en investigación histórica y una maestría, profundiza en el pasado de la región. Su obra ilumina la narrativa histórica única del oeste de Kansas para los lectores. Hinger aborda la historia con un compromiso de investigación exhaustiva y representación auténtica.

    Librarians of the West: A Quartet
    • Librarians of the West: A Quartet

      • 302 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      "Too Much Dancing Going On" is the account of an independent-minded young woman in a wide-open Montana who loved books and horses, and later a certain literary young man. "The Cowboy, the Librarian, and the Broomsman" - When Lyle Hardiman, easy-going, illiterate, Montana cowboy, accidentally blunders into the new library with his horse (he thought it was a livery), he meets the new librarian, Miss Rebecca Spark, and sets into motion a chain of events that will ensure the little town of Burnt Creek a place in the history books. With the help of the local saloon/shop sweeper, Lyle will discover a path laid out for him by destiny . . . a path that leads to the heart of Miss Rebecca Spark. In "The Book Mama", Lady Jane Woodruff is stranded with an abusive husband in a harsh new country and relies on the wisdom of an ancient African American woman to guide her to freedom.Fourteen-year-old Pearl Ellingson learns life's hard lessons as she struggles to start a library in frontier North Dakota in "Terrible and Wonderful."

      Librarians of the West: A Quartet