title: An American Life
author: Milstead, Doreen
description: Overweight Bride From Back East Heads For the Colorado Rancher With A Secret  - An overweight woman from back east, about to become penniless, decides to both answer an ad and place one herself to become a mail order bride PLUS Pregnant & Widowed & With A New Family Waiting For Her - This is a beautiful love story about a woman who is pregnant, then finds herself widowed, and with the only means for her survival open to her, becomes a mail order bride to rancher in Colorado, who is a widower himself PLUS Renegade Cowboy - A woman from the slums seeks a way out of that life and answers a mail order bride ad from a cowboy in Colorado, and little did the cowboy know what he was getting in the feisty, independent, caring, and loving woman who arrived on the train PLUS Riding Ahead of the Storm - An English widow arrives in the remote Alaskan Territories soon after it was handed over to America, to meet her bear of a Russian husband and make a new life with him.