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When one German immigrant family joins the wagon train headed for San Francisco, they are first shunned for their 'funny language' and somewhat strange ways. They are strong Christians with devout ways and eventually, through faith and love and perseverance and a few natural herbal remedies that God put on earth, they win the trust and love from the rest of the people they are traveling with.

Our Family's Wagon Train on the Oregon Trail: The Onion Fields of God, is an inspirational story (with scriptures) about one family's journey along the Oregon Trail, headed west on a wagon train to start their new lives. They started out wanting to farm onions, well, except for the oldest son Jeb. What he finds along the way changes his mind, their destination, and the fate of his family and neighbors forever.

Footprints Left After The Wagon Train: An Oregon Trail Christian Story, is a novella about the 1847 journey to the west as told from the POV of a teenaged boy. It's a story about hope, love of God, charity towards others and redemption. There is death, joy, anger, hope and tragedy along the trail as all of the families leave their own footprints in the dusty soil, long after the train has passed on and they have settled into their new lives thousands of miles from their starting point.

The Indian, the Bookbinder & Abby: An Oregon Trail Journey, is a wonderful and emotional love story about one young woman traveling the Oregon Trail with her father. She is engaged to a self-centered, controlling, and very angry young man. When a young bookbinder spots her ancient family bible, which is falling apart, he tells her he'll restore it for her. Her fiancé becomes enraged and when the bible is completed there is an altercation and someone dear to Abby gets critically injured. This love story has a fulfilling and satisfying ending.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Looking for Salisa with the Blue Eyes, is about a young cowboy who passes by a stagecoach on its way into town, and sees a group of ragamuffin kids, and a young woman with a pair of the most startling blue eyes he's ever seen. When he gets back into town he cannot find her anywhere and gives up and decides to place an ad for a mail order bride. After receiving a letter from a woman through his ad, he still cannot give up on those blue eyes.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Jordyn's Reluctant New Love is the emotional story of a woman who starts out by lying when she begins a correspondence with a rancher in Oregon who has advertised for a mail order bride. All she wants to do is get out west, learn how to run a ranch, then own one herself - just like she and her now deceased father had planned. Under other deceptions she gets a free boat ride out to the west coast from a mail order bride company sending one hundred women in search of husbands.

God Is Our Constant Companion Along the Oregon Trail is the story of one family in the mid-1800s and their life - first at home on their farm then their life after that, as they travel into the West and unknown territory. Along the way there are plenty of tragedies yet laughter and life as well, along with faith and hope. The tale is told through the eyes of one teenaged boy.

Maggie Saves Three Men From Death After the Oregon Trail, is a gentle story about love and faith and one lone woman on her Wyoming ranch, left by herself except for some transitory ranch hands, after her husband dies. There's a very long period of loneliness before God sends a man and his two sons who are near death after being abandoned by the people on their wagon train traveling the Oregon Trail, to her. What she does later will change four lives, and then many more, forever.

A Christian Heart Of Gold In The Yukon Territories is an incredible story about faith and the love for God, among rough gold miners and one Mexican camp cook. It's tough up in the frozen north in 1898 but Maria the cook is determined to both feed the men there and teach them about her faith, the bible, and God. Along the way and facing many obstacles, she finds a strong love for herself in addition to God's love, and enriches the lives of all of the lost souls seeking fame and fortune and riches from the golden ore.

The Western Mail Order Bride: Jed, Maggie from London, and the Rabbi is a story about two damaged people finding love, thanks to the assistance of one rabbi. Jed went to prison for a while after he killed the man who had killed his beautiful wife. He and a rabbi are the only two people in town who are Jewish and they become friends. The rabbi encourages lonely and crotchety Jed to advertise for a mail order bride and without warning, because of a mistake, one shows up on his doorstep.

Our Wagon Train Of Christian Souls: Black Slaves In Chains On The Oregon Trail, is a wonderful story about a young woman fleeing her home state of Georgia on a wagon train headed for California. She is anti-slavery and a strong Christian and she fears the probable upcoming war between the states. At a stop along the way she meets a plantation owner and his son and one young slave woman. Aided by a former drunkard and their strong faith, all of them make changes which will affect their lives forever.

The Protestant Wagon Train: Headed West Along The Oregon Trail, is a story of a Protestant family, their daughter and a young man who saves the family bible from destruction one evening after an almost disaster that runs through the wagon train's campsite. There's love which develops along the way and family life afterwards when they reach their destination. Generations grow and flourish, guided by the old family bible.

Prairie Girl Legacy: Seven Children Who Love God, is the gentle and loving story of one independent prairie woman talking about her seven children and how they were raised, and who they are. As a result, she has many grandchildren who help pass along her legacy of love and understanding, service to others, powerful faith, and the love of God.

This audiobook contains powerful Christian influences, love, family, and other related themes meant to make you smile! Christian Lumberjack In The Old West, is a wonderful and emotional story about one man's journey in life and in the old west, as he heads to Oregon to become a lumberjack. His story is told through a contemporary woman, a librarian in New York City, who discovers most of the man's journal in the dusty reaches of the library basement.

The Christian Wagon Train Challenging Adversity Along The Oregon Trail, is a story about one young woman who is forced into the leadership role in her family when something tragic happens to them along the Oregon Trail. The very next day she meets a man waving his hands around to catch their attention, in the middle of nowhere.

Lies Dissolved by God's Love Along the Oregon Trail, is a moving audiobook about one young woman, responsible for her sisters after their parents die, as she travels west along the Oregon Trail. She falls in love with a young man called Kade until something horrible happens one early morning. She wakes up after it having lost almost everything and it's a long journey back to recovery, with God's help and the young man she used to love.

Heading Towards A New Life Along The Oregon Trail, about a young woman with a baby and a somewhat checkered past who joins a wagon train and the only single women's wagon on it. There, she becomes friends with a female doctor and another woman as they struggle through the many trials of such a journey. Along the way a strong bond is formed between the women, two of the men on the train, and God.

Setting Black Souls Free Along The Oregon Trail: The Christian Wagon Train, is a wonderful Christian novella with scriptures, about one woman's fight to free the slaves which a single family owns, as they head west along the Oregon Trail. It's a family consisting of one father and his six sons. The youngest son is already a believer but the woman has a hard time in convincing the others that all people deserve to be free and have the chance to learn about Jesus. Gradually, she is able to convince the group of men, except for one, to realize that God's word is the truth.

This is a story about a young Amish couple who had planned to get married when they were permitted to do so. One horrible lie told by a young woman throws the entire community into chaos and splits Jacob and Grace Ella apart. It's only when the woman confesses that things may start to be pulled together once again. The only problem is, unable to stand all of the changes in her life now that she cannot be with Jacob, Grace Ella runs off and the brothers of both families set out to find her.

This novelette by Vanessa Carvo contains powerful Christian influences, love, family and other related themes meant to make you smile! Mail Order Bride: The Cowboy's Pregnant Widow is about a woman who responds to a mail order bride advertisement and travels to meet her hopeful cowboy in California. Along the way she encounters a man who assaults her and leaves her dejected and with child.