This Road We Traveled by Jane Kirkpatrick

Author:Jane Kirkpatrick [Kirkpatrick, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC042030, FIC014000, Mothers and daughters—Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life—Fiction, Oregon Territory—History—Fiction, Christian fiction
ISBN: 9781493405138
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2016-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

The word went up and down the line that Virgilia Pringle had slept with a rattler and lived to tell. “A brave girl,” people said. “Amazing,” spoke others. “How did you stay so quiet?” Virgilia knew it was a distraction, something to think about besides the desert ahead and that’s why people carried on so about it. Albro, her animal-loving brother, wondered why it had to die. “Couldn’t Pa have tossed it in the desert and let it be? We’re the invaders.”

Virgilia didn’t feel much pity for the snake and she didn’t feel brave. Fear had immobilized her. She couldn’t have moved before she did, even if she had wanted to. What looked to others like something noble, well, it wasn’t, not even close. It bothered her, though, that she was afraid of snakes and that’s what had shown up. Would her life be made up of having to face the very things she feared the most? If so, she’d better stop naming other scary things, like being without family, being alone.

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