title: Rising Above the Smoking Forest
author: Milstead, Doreen
description: Overweight Widow Takes A Chance On The Trace Of A Quiet Cowboy - An overweight woman is sent to Nebraska to be a mail order bride, through the machinations of her mother, who has sent a picture other than hers to the cowboy. He is surprised when he sees her, as she is when she learns that he has three children. Both wonder if love will blossom and what they will do if it doesn’t.
  The Overweight Bride & Her Thin Husband - A woman who finds that her mother’s overfeeding causes her weight gain, literally flees to a less than appetizing offer from a farmer in Fresno, who turns out to be rail thin and as stubborn as a mule about certain things.