The Cherokee Trail

by Louis L'Amour

Mary Breydon knew how to get things done. Raised on a Virginia plantation, she learned how to care for livestock, respect her workers, and keep good books. But after her husband is killed, she must make a living running a stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. Mary faces challenges that even the men eagerly anticipating her failure would have a difficult time overcoming. After being forced... (read more)

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A very good story of a widow who makes a way for herself out west at a stagecoach station.

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  • Irene B

    irene b said:

    Louis L"Amour's THE CHEROKEE TRAIL is rare in its genre with a woman as the main character. A very realistic novel of "a woman's place" in the settlement of the west where gender wasn't an issue when survival was important.

    posted Wednesday, June 4 2008
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