Joe Denton needs a wife. He established a logging business and was deeded 640 acres in Washington Territory. Unfortunately his wife died en route to Seattle and the courthouse that held her death certificate on file burned down and no records were saved. A single man is only entitled to 320 acres. Suit has been brought against Joe and he stands to lose one half of his logging concern if he remains single. Women are scarce in frontier Seattle so Joe sends for a Civil War casualty - a single, unattached woman. Anna Ivey decides to go west to escape groping hand and to serve as a teacher, governess, or cook. She has no plans to marry. Asa Mercer neglected to inform that Joe Denton had contracted for a bride.
"There is no shame in being poor. Only in doing nothing about it."
Christy Award 2011
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