Beth Overton: 95 books

Mail Order Bride: Looking After The Drunken Man - On her way to her fiancé in the Wyoming Territory a woman encounters an apparently inebriated man during the next leg of her journey but when all disembark for the night at a way station, they discover that he is severely wounded. What happens later...

A very shy woman from Philadelphia takes the plunge and becomes the mail order bride of a socially awkward cowboy in Utah. They have to deal with the curious townspeople and an angry father who thought his daughter would be the cowboy’s bride.

Mail Order Bride: A Lonely Life With Her Damaged Cowboy - A woman from England decides to get out of London and seek a husband in California and after corresponding with a cowboy, makes her way there. There is nothing to do when he’s gone for weeks at a time and she begins to get restless, until...

A woman, on the way to help her aunt over a bout of illness, meets a man on the train and begins a relationship with him. He even visits she and her aunt and the woman believes that the relationship will grow and flourish. There are obstacles however -- one big one being that she has to return to her university studies in a few days.

A large multi-generational family from Philadelphia heads to North Dakota to meet with several potential mail order husbands, but along the way there’s a pit stop at a ranch to learn the ins and outs of ranch life. This is a humorous story full of love, strong women and family values.

Along with her five sisters, a woman agrees to join a mail order bride train in order to find a husband. The organizer pairs her up with a man, but it’s a horrible match and she finds the courage to run away from him. However, he puts up a wanted poster and she wonders if she’ll survive until...

A man who fought in the civil war and knowing that his family died in a fire, returns to his ranch after a long period of wandering. It is almost gone to dust now and so he goes to nearby Tucson and checks in with the family lawyer and is surprised to learn that funds from the sale of cattle and other...

The Orphan Train: Forced From His Sister & Sent To Work In The Mines - A child and his sister are sent on an orphan train out west and then fostered separately, with different families. Unfortunately, the boy is treated indifferently and forced to work in the mines and is left unschooled. The...

Mail Order Bride: Orphaned Scullery Maid From London & The Red Headed Farmer In Kansas - An orphaned scullery maid from England decides to take a chance on becoming a mail order bride so she makes the arduous journey by boat, then by wagon train, to Kansas, where she is to be the mail order bride...

A group of women head out west on the train to meet their mail ordered husbands but when a fight erupts that spills out onto the train platform, all that the three waiting brothers can see is a mass of swirling skirts and bonnets and differently colored hair, and a group of apparently very angry women.

A woman leaves Boston to become the mail order bride of a cowboy rancher, doctor, and horse farm owner in Arizona. She’s expected to take charge immediately, but barely knows which end of a horse is which. At first sight of the doctor’s prize black stallion, she realizes that she most definitely...

Mail Order Bride: The Shy Seamstress From Philadelphia & The Awkward Cowboy In Utah - A very shy woman from Philadelphia takes the plunge and becomes the mail order bride of a socially awkward cowboy in Utah. They have to deal with the curious townspeople and an angry father who thought his daughter...

A man with a dark and secret past, kept lonely and shunned by others, decides he wants the companionship and love of a wife, so he corresponds briefly with a woman in England, who soon packs her trunk and books a passage on a ship bound for America. She leaves in the middle of the night to reach him...

Mail Order Bride: Accident Prone & Headed For Her Tall Cowboy - An overweight and accident-prone woman from Boston decides to make her way to Oklahoma, and to a tall cowboy with a checkered past. She doesn’t know that, and when she finds out, has almost decided to return to Boston when a few...