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Reduced to destitution by the Civil War, Francesca ""Chess"" Standish struggles to win the love of her younger husband, whom she married in order to capitalize on her only remaining asset, a tobacco-machine patent. Reprint. PW.

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THE WAGON WAS MADE OF WOOD, long since weathered to a mottled gray.

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  1. Alexandra Ripley (Author)
 

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