Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #26

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 42 Comments

  Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! • The hunt BEGINS on 10/21 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. • Hunt …

A Dedicated Woman – Mary Breckinridge

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 6 Comments

“Where the land is rough and steep, nature is not easily conquered even after wild beasts and wilder men have been subdued. …a dogged determination to survive keeps a mountaineer’s body lean and his mind alert. His dwelling place in awesome regions tends to give him dignity of manner …accentuated by his sparse use of words.” (Mary Breckinridge describing the …

Babies in Saddlebags

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 10 Comments

“When mountain children asked where babies came from, they were told, ‘The nurses bring them in saddlebags.” (Frontier Nursing Service) One of the good things about writing historical fiction is that the writer has the opportunity to learn more about the history of our country and can discover some individual real life heroes or heroines. When I was digging around …