Doreen Milstead: 925 books

The Smallest of the Orphans - A destitute woman in New York gives birth to a tiny baby and the orphanage there is unsure of the newborn’s survival. After feeling that it’s the baby’s only chance for a good life, a friend of the orphanage takes the baby out to Indiana for adoption by a childless...

A cowboy with a ranch in Arizona sends for a mail order bride who arrives early and not realizing that his ranch is many miles away from the railway station, she sets out walking, and halfway there meets a stranger on horseback who is dressed in an unfamiliar style and carries guns and two swords...

Mail Order Bride: The Irish Woman & Her Mysterious Fiancé - An Irish woman is promised to a man in Texas by her father, in return for a dowry to be sent back to her family in Ireland. Mail Order Bride: The English Governess Meets The Cowboy - A governess from England is hired to go out west and...

A woman from London finds that the only recourse left to her after becoming widowed and being pregnant and living in a poorhouse, is to seek a mail order husband. She finds herself on board ship and sick from both morning and seasickness, and heading towards a man whose only requirement is that she helps him with the farm chores; until he sees her, that is.

This is an incredibly moving story about love; love for people of another race, love for children with special needs, and love between a man and a woman--a surprise mail order bride--who can give nothing but kindness to all who surround them.

A woman from Manchester manages to escape her abusive husband, just as she learns she’s pregnant; and trying to get as far away as she can, becomes a mail order bride to a farmer called Josh, in California. The trouble is – she cannot get up the nerve to tell him that she’s pregnant, and still married.

A woman and her two sisters fall on hard times in England when their alcoholic father dies, so they all decide to go out west and seek mail order husbands. Only one has actually corresponded with a rancher but throughout the long journey by ship, train and stagecoach, she wonders if he’ll still be there at the end, and also, what will happen to her beloved sisters.

These four vibrant and individual tales about families traversing the Oregon Trail illustrate the faith, love and tenacity needed to forge the trail into the unknown and seek out new lives. They are: Reading Charles Dickens Along The Oregon Trail; Forming A New Family; Protestants, and Emma’s Place.

Mail Order Bride: From France To The Other Side Of Paradise - A Frenchwoman makes a long and arduous journey to a small town in California. When she arrives, her journey is not complete and the trek to her future husband is as dangerous as the much longer one across the ocean and across America. Her...

Mail Order Bride: Herded West Like Cattle While Trying To Find Cowboy Husbands - A group of women travel west to seek out new husbands by means of a small wagon train run by an unscrupulous man and his cronies. Mail Order Bride: Shades Of Blue And Grey - The widow of a clergyman heads off to be a...

Mail Order Bride: Maggie Falls Off A Train: A woman goes from England to America to get a business degree in NYC so she can help her father, then westward to try for the healing powers in the California sunshine; and when she arrives her mail order bride status is thrust upon her suddenly. Mail Order...

A stubborn and pregnant English widow makes the long journey to California in the hopes of safe haven for she and her child, and intent on not marrying her mail order fiancé because he is merely a means to an end. Her companions are a young married couple – the man is one that her husband saved...

Mail Order Bride: Maggie Falls Off A Train - A woman travels to New York to get an education, and then decides to go west to recuperate after an illness but almost doesn’t make it. Mail Order Bride: Caroline & Asa, Her Stranger On A Train, is about a mail order bride headed for California, and...

Looking For A Good Life - A stubborn and pregnant English widow makes the long journey to California in the hopes of safe haven for she and her child, and intent on not marrying her mail order fiancé because he is merely a means to an end PLUS Looking After Teresa - A high society woman escapes an...