title: A Simple Life to Be Lived
author: Milstead, Doreen
description: Mail Order Bride: Worlds Apart  - Trapped in a loveless marriage, and after her husband’s suicide, Emma decides to become a mail order bride and after finding a rancher, she boards the train headed for California.
  Mariana & William’s Story - 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.
  Marlene & Randall’s Story is a glorious story about a man and woman who correspond after he places an ad for a mail order bride in the newspaper, and she responds.
  Mattie & Sam’s Story - An overweight woman is sent out west to a man she doesn’t know, because her family has arranged it all.