Should've Said No by Tracy March

Author:Tracy March [March, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-25T05:00:00+00:00

She picked up the next stack of old papers, tied with twine. Tiny splinters of fiber puffed into the air as she untied the string. Town of Thistle Bend, Colorado 1880–1883 was handwritten on the first page in the stack. She flipped through the aged pages, finding faded, alphabetized records of early real estate holdings. Turning to the K’s, she found Brooks Karlsson, Uncle Oscar’s great-grandfather. She brushed her fingers over the page, amazed she was connected—however tenuously—with this long-gone man from Thistle Bend. He and his relatives were an age-old branch of her family tree. Maybe this would bring her closer to feeling as if she belonged.

She flipped back to the C’s, and found two records for Crenshaws—a Y. S. Crenshaw, and an R. E. Crenshaw.

R.E.?

Lindsey’s heart stammered. She locked her gaze on the teddy bear staring back at her, on the R.E. monogram on its paw. “Ruby Eileen Crenshaw?” Lindsey turned her attention back to the records to find that R. E. Crenshaw had owned a huge parcel of land.

Purchased in 1882 from Warner Montgomery III.

Lindsey grabbed a binder from the table that had a record of influential people the board had recommended to be featured in the Movers and Shakers exhibit—people who had shaped Thistle Bend. R. E. Crenshaw was listed, with a short biography that confirmed R. E. as the person who’d purchased the land that was “mined for coal, silver, molybdenum, and lapis, providing jobs for many people in Thistle Bend.” Lindsey, or one of her assistants, would eventually write a more detailed biography of each person, but that’s what she’d had to go on for R. E. Crenshaw.

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