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About the Book

A near blizzard howled through the John Day Valley in Eastern Oregon. Fine snow sifted through the cracks around the windows of the board-and-batten ranch house. Homemade curtains were tacked to the windowsills to keep everything inside snug and warm. In the corner of the kitchen a hot fire burned in the iron cook-stove, and the old black iron teakettle hummed as the steam from its spout drifted almost to the ceiling.

About the Author

Susan Quainton is a retired English teacher living in Washington, D.C. After gaining degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Oxford University, she spent nearly forty years as a Foreign Service spouse, during which time she also taught in high schools, elementary schools, and adult English language institutes both at home and abroad. She has lived in countries on five continents, where her husband served in U.S. Embassies, becoming Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru. The Quaintons have three children and seven grandchildren, who are among Lela’s great-great-grandchildren—the generation for whom these books have been prepared.