In the 1880s Emma Clarke came west from Ohio to Kansas in a covered wagon built by her father. They continued from Kansas to California by train. Emmas mother died after they reached San Francisco leaving Emma and her father Thomas to raise toddler Dillyshane and baby Myra. Along with the help of a Chinese houseboy, nine-year-old Emma took charge.
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978-1-4907-7255-4 (9781490772554)
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Marjorie Irish Randell is the author of Searching for Friday's Child, a biography, and The Aerie, a novel which recieved the Eric Hoffer Award. She lives in Seal Beach, California. Her new book is a fictionalized biography of her husband's grandmother, Emma Clarke Pratt, based on letters that Emma's husband, a surveyor of the Yukon, wrote her during their life together. The letters were tied together with a red ribbon and saved by Emma long after her husband passed away. Those carefully saved letters were Marjorie's inspiration for this book and are included in the story.
