Rescue in Poverty Gulch - Oswald, Nancy
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Eleven-year-old Ruby is in a pickle. After years of traveling the mountains and hills of Colorado with her Pa and their donkey, Maude, Pa decides to settle down in the booming gold-mining town of Cripple Creek. Worse than that, Pa decides it's time for Ruby to learn something about being a lady. Vinegar and baking soda don't mix. Ruby faces the prospects of having to wear a corset, learning the art of elocution, and the possibility of having the school headmistress for a mother. Events lead Ruby into the midst of the 1896 Cripple Creek fire and culminate with the kidnapping and rescue of Maude from the clutches of a local scoundrel.…mehr

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Eleven-year-old Ruby is in a pickle. After years of traveling the mountains and hills of Colorado with her Pa and their donkey, Maude, Pa decides to settle down in the booming gold-mining town of Cripple Creek. Worse than that, Pa decides it's time for Ruby to learn something about being a lady. Vinegar and baking soda don't mix. Ruby faces the prospects of having to wear a corset, learning the art of elocution, and the possibility of having the school headmistress for a mother. Events lead Ruby into the midst of the 1896 Cripple Creek fire and culminate with the kidnapping and rescue of Maude from the clutches of a local scoundrel.
Autorenporträt
Nancy Oswald is an award-winning author, speaker, and retired elementary teacher. She writes middle grade and young adult historical fiction set in Colorado.Her other Filter Press titles include: Nothing Here but Stones, Hard Face Moon, Rescue in Poverty Gulch, and Trouble on the Tracks. Nancy lives on a working cattle ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado. Contact her for presentations, school visits, and signings through her website, http://www.NancyOswald.com or by emailing authors@FilterPressBooks.com