Against All Odds: Amazing Pioneer Stories of Couragge and Survival (Google eBook)

Shirley Bahlmann

Cedar Fort, Mar 1, 2002 - History - 120 pages

This collection of fact-based adventures will appeal to readers of all ages.The stories put the reader right in the middle of the action, alongside the pioneers as they overcome dangerous challenges.The author has thoroughly researched each story, and skillfully brings to life these heroes of the American West.How would you respond to these challenges? Poisonous snakes in your bed Watching an Indian chief take your two-year-old cousin hostage Facing a cornered, enraged bobcat without a weapon Indian warriors galloping toward you while your wagon is helplessly stuck in the snow These are only a few of the life-threatening situations that confronted courageous pioneers. In these remarkable true stories of survival, you can experience these and other exciting adventures. Think about what you would do, then open the book and discover how these pioneers and Indians survived the challenges that were a daily part of the settling the American West.

What people are saying

Review: Against All Odds: Amazing Pioneer Stories of Courage and Survival

User Review  - Frank - Goodreads

Excellent short stories for youth. Read it with your kids.

Review: Against All Odds: Amazing Pioneer Stories of Courage and Survival

User Review  - Karen - Goodreads

This is a small book of amazing pioneer stories or courage and survival I enjoyed it.

Contents

• Strange Bedfellows l: 1
• Bloody Finger: 15
• Savage Samaritan: 29
• Horse Raid: 47
• Hostage Baby: 65
• Killer in the Henhouse: 79
• She Loves Me She Loves Me Not: 97

About the author

Bahlmann was born in Utah and raised in New Jersey, the fourth in a family of six. At age 12 she and her family moved back to Utah. She wrote her first novel when she was ten years old. She is married and the mother of six sons.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Against All Odds: Amazing Pioneer Stories of Couragge and Survival
• Author: Shirley Bahlmann
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cedar Fort, 2002
• ISBN: 1555175902, 9781555175900
• Length: 120 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / State & Local / General; Religion / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)