Traveling in covered wagons and by train, young Martha Jane Smith (affectionately called Mattie) and her family left Texas in the early 1900s to homestead on the wind-swept High Plains of Eastern New Mexico. Determination was ignited early in Mattie's life-beginning with a rattlesnake bite that meant almost certain death in those days. Not for Mattie When Mattie was eleven, her mother died. When Mattie was 22, her husband died from the Spanish Flu, leaving her with three young daughters to rear alone. A second marriage produced three sons; the first died one day before his first birthday....
Traveling in covered wagons and by train, young Martha Jane Smith (affectionately called Mattie) and her family left Texas in the early 1900s to homes...
"New York Times"-bestselling author Chesser shares practical steps to take to help alleviate the pain of loss and the heartbreak from a variety of shattering experiences--seven steps drawn straight from real-life experiences.
"New York Times"-bestselling author Chesser shares practical steps to take to help alleviate the pain of loss and the heartbreak from a variety of sha...
