Description
TwoDot [Published Date: 2014]. Softcover, 238 pp. First printing. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by author on title page.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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In very good condition. Pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Not Ex-library. No remainder marks. Includes two 8 page sections with photographic illustrations. [From back cover] After leaving home at a young age and defying her parents by marrying the dashing Garrett Maupin, Martha Maupin's future became bound up with some of the most extraordinary events in antebellum American history, eventually leading to her journey to a new life on the Oregon Trail. After Garrett died in 1866, leaving Martha alone on the frontier with their many children, she was torn between grief and relief after a difficult marriage. She took charge of her own dream and bought her own place, which is now one of the few Century Farms in Oregon named for a woman. A Place of Her Own is the story of Martha's daring decision to buy that frontier farm after the death of her husband-and it's the story of the author, Martha's great-great-granddaughter, and her decision to keep the farm in the family. Janet Fisher's journey into the past to uncover her family history as she worked to keep the property is interwoven with the tales from her ancestors' lives. Janet Fisher grew up on the farm her great-great-grandmother bought nearly 150 years ago. After earning a master's degree in journalism with honors from the University of Oregon, she taught college writing and wrote freelance articles for newspapers. She recently returned to Martha's farm along the Umpqua River in southern Oregon and became the second woman to own and operate this family treasure.