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Believe me when she sees this page, my life isn't going to be worth a plug nickel!! (You know they talk funny in Alabama!!)

A couple years ago, I made a trip to Alabama to visit cousin Betty (she's really my husbands cousin) at that time she asked me to read a book she had written, due to the time change from our area to hers, sleeping at night wasn't something I was doing very well, so I read her book.  She must have thought I knew what I was doing because I build WebPages! LOL

Last week we made another trip to Alabama to visit cousin Betty, only this time my husband came along, her real cousin!! The purpose of our trip was to attend Betty's book signing, she had finally done it a real published author!!
Now she is my cousin!

On the trip home, I read beth again, it was better the second time around, the only thing I found wrong?? I wanted more. 

Judy Wallis White (Betty's cousin!)

Now its your turn!
 


beth
       "Beth" Centers on a young woman whose experience and character might define her as the traditional southern belle typically associated with the nineteenth century. When Beth's family heads for Oregon as part of a wagon train, little does she know that, while they will stop short of their intended destination, her own journey will lead her into adventure. This story will portray the kind of challenges pioneer life in American West might have included, particularly for a woman.
     Beth does not mind leaving Savannah, but does mind leaving her life long friend Eva. Beth has accepted the fact that this is the way it is to be and is trying to make the best of it.
     As the wagons leave Savannah there is a melancholy feeling. She feels drained of emotion.
     From the beginning of the journey, Beth is kept busy with romantic interests from John Owens a boy from home and the handsome wagon master Tim Holt.
     An influenza epidemic in Hardy, AR. forces Beth's family to stay as her father is a doctor. Beth secretly wishes to become a doctor and gets her chance here.
     When there is a robbery at the local mercantile store, it leaves Beth's father injured and her mother dead. Beth and Glen must run away to keep the man from the orphanage from capturing them.
     After helping an injured Indian they go to the Indian village for help. Beth and the Indian fall in love and make plans to finish the journey to Oregon.
     As this part of the story comes to an end, Beth and Lum spend their last night together where they started their life together.
 


The book is listed at Barnes and Noble, Xlibris and Amazon.com
 

 
 

 

This is cousin Betty, and her book, they say you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear!! Wrong

What she said about herself

     My early years were spent in Baker, Oregon. It is now Baker City. I was living at the foothills of the Cascade mountain range.
     There was a monument in front of the post office claiming that was the place where the first wagon train coming from the east made it’s circle. The Powder River runs close to this spot. I played in Powder River as a child, catching crawdads with my brother and our friends. I remember the sage brush and the land there.
     There is a heritage center there now where you can still see the ruts of the first wagon trains that came to the West. I lived at the best time for children. Every Saturday I went to the matinees. I saw them all, Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry and all the rest of them. I have always loved western movies and books.
     I later moved from Baker to the Willamette Valley. We lived fifty miles from Mt. Hood. This is a plush valley, where wild berries and fruit grow in the woods and along the river banks.
     I spent many a day in the summer time picking berries and beans in the fields as most of the children did there.
     I later married a Southerner and my journey began. I have made many trips back to Oregon to see my family and friends. I always try to go a different way to see different scenery.
     I have always known I had Indian blood, but never knew enough about it to try to join my tribe. Then in 1998 I got a computer and another journey began. I have found my roots, or at least one line of them. I started with my grandfather on my mothers side and have found them all the way back to 1750. I can say I am Cherokee now and know it is true. There is much more to learn for my grandmother on my father’s side was also Indian.
     This is what started this book, I started putting all the old pictures together and writing about each one what I could remember. So I could pass this on to my three sons and their families.
     I never finished that project because this story wouldn’t leave me alone. It keeps coming into my head and I can say I dreamed this book for even after I started it, I would get to a spot and ask myself what now? Then in a few days I would just dream what was to happen next.
    I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it. This story is fiction.
     I am already started on The Journey West, in this story Beth will finish the journey from Savannah to Baker, Oregon. So if you enjoy Beth, you will enjoy the rest of the story.

 
 

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