Sept 2014 Free Book!!
Our free book this month is THE PURSUIT OF TAMSEN LITTLEJOHN, another wonderful novel by my friend Lori Benton. If you love historicals, you will love this novel!
From the back cover: “Frontier dangers cannot compare to the risks one woman takes by falling in love. In an act of brave defiance, Tamsen Littlejohn escapes the life her harsh stepfather has forced upon her. Forsaking security and an arranged marriage, she enlists frontiersman Jesse Bird to guide her to the Watauga settlement in western North Carolina. But shedding her old life doesn’t come without cost. As the two cross a vast mountain wilderness, Tamsen faces hardships that test the limits of her faith and endurance.”
Our give-away copy is a new trade edition (the large size) paperback.
To qualify for our Thursday, September 11 drawing, please answer this question: Have you ever spent time in what you would consider to be a wilderness area? (A yes or no answer is fine or you can tell us where!)
Blessings!
Sue
A beautiful place to relax and dream, Mia, for sure. I hope you do find your cabin in the woods!
Nola, I didn’t know that there were places like that in northern Indiana. It sounds like a paradise to me!
I love St. Paul, Sharon. I’m so glad you were able to visit that very special island. So few people get that chance.
Yep, you betcha, Rachael, Maine is wilderness — and beautiful!
We lived in the country way off the road surrounded by tree’s. You didn’t see another person unless you went to the road. And then my family on dad’s side lived in a holler in Kentucky no close neighbor at all surrounded by mountain like hill’s. And their were bobcat’s and all sort’s of wildlife from bear to rabbits,deer !
Very beautiful but could be dangerous ! And I love historical books !
What a beautiful picture you paint with words, Rick. I bet you were surprised to see all those deer! What a delight!
I hope you got some mountain climbing in — or hiking!
I’ve heard of it, Chris, but I haven’t been there. It sounds like wilderness to me!
What a challenge, Sherrey, and what a joy!
Oh Brenda, that sounds glorious!
I like hiking, too, Joan!
I would say that any redneck trailer in the middle of a state park is wilderness territory, Susan!
Ah, Sarah, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been.
That’s definitely it’s own kind of wilderness, Cindy! Thank you for sharing.
Yes I do, Judy, but I’ve never been there. It’s on my bucket list!
Camping is so much fun, Anne!
You know, Lori, I never think of Hawai’i when I think of wilderness, but it sure sounds like a beautiful, wild paradise
It must be gorgeous, Lisa, and present you with some tough winters!
You are braver than I am, Liz. I’ve never attempted white water rafting!
I would love to go there, Colleen!
Libby, you need to come up to the U.P.!
In my late teens-early 20’s I spent many weekends backpacking in the high Uinta Mountains in Utah. With the Moose, Elk, and occasional Brown Bear.
Have never been that fortunate.
I love to go white water rafting up in the Smokies and it is beautiful wilderness up there!
Thank you for sharing and a chance to win! We lived in the panhandle of Idaho near the Canadian border at the foot of the mountain. We would daily have deer and other wildlife visit our property. ~ Blessings ~
When I was younger we lived in a home that backed up to a forest. It was such a magical place for my brothers and me. We also camped a lot and recently I visited my brother at his home in Molokai where he and his family homestead. It is nothing like the tropical HI that everyone visits for vacations. Opened my eyes for sure 🙂
Yes, and I love the wilderness! I do a lot of camping and the last place I went was in Northern California. I loved it!!
Wellllll do you consider Yellowstone wilderness? Loved it there….wanna go back…no cell phone no airplanes…..nothing but quite! Wonderful…
Thanks for this giveaway!
i grew up in a small town, wouldn’t consider it wilderness but i went to a 4 room school house. one for each grade. no cafeteria etc.
Of course! I live in it. I live in the Smoky mountains in the southern Appalachian range. We have wildlife abound here. It is simply beautiful. Within just a few minutes you leave any civilization behind and get into pure wilderness.
I grew up on a farm so country life was always what I knew. As for more wilderness type, we have stayed in a broken down redneck trailer in the middle of state park areas before and that’s pretty cool!
No – No wilderness but outdoors. Like hiking.
I live up in the mountains of western Montana, totally off grid. I am blessed to be surrounded by God’s creation and His creatures, which come in all shapes and sizes. To hear the elk bugle on a foggy September morning is an experience i will never get tired of. I have lived here for 22 years and hope to have that many more at least.
My husband and I actually purchased five acres of unimproved property in a small town named Quilcene, WA, along the Puget Sound. We would go and work weekends to clear trees and brush, and we would spend time there in the quiet. It was like a wilderness in that parcels were allowed to only be 5 acres or greater. So no one was nearby. This city girl got her taste of wilderness all right!!!
As close as I got was Mount Pisgah National Forrest, NC, . . . . beautiful . . . peaceful. Loved it but not the bathing in the freezing cold streams. : / Still great!
Yes! I lived in Colorado Springs, CO for a year.
Yes,
Many years ago I was hired to help build the Garland golf course in Lewiston, Michigan. Snuffy Bunting was the architect. The year was 1972. Bull dozers and surveyors made the rough cut into the heavily forested area and a PGA style course began taking shape. My job was to seed the fairways using a Hydro-seeder and two helpers. A few weeks after the first seeds were planted, the reshaped terrain sprouted acres of fresh grass. It was about 5:30 am on a Thursday morning when I walked out onto the 17th fairway and was greeted by over one hundred deer feasting on a most wonderful breakfast of a rich bluegrass blend. The sun was just peaking through the tops of the pine trees illuminating a scene that is etched into my storehouse of fond memories.
I live in Maine, and I’m from Oklahoma so I feel like I definitely LIVE in the woods! 🙂 I tend to get claustrophobic! I spent some in a cabin here as well. We have a small farm here, deer, bears, etc.
Yes – my husband & I traveled to St Paul Island in Alaska – It was incredible, & since the birds weren’t used to people being around we could almost walk right up to them 🙂
We own a 40 acre farm north of us, plus 38 acres where we live. Part of the 38 acres is creek bottom land and can’t be farmed, so it is basically a nature area. The 40 acres had a 7 acre woods originally, then dad decided to let the back 3 acre field go back to nature. It has now become a fairly thick woods with a river as the back boundary. While not technically a “wilderness” it’s a beautiful place to just enjoy nature – deer, coyotes, foxes, all sort of wildlife. My dream has always been to have a little one room log cabin in the edge of the woods. This is in northern Indiana just west of the Ohio state line.
no .. It would be nice to stay at a cabin the woods though
Yes. I grew up in Akutan, AK in the Aleutian Islands. I have a picture with you when you came to Akutan in the 90s to do a book signing. 🙂
It’s been years, but yes, I lived in Colorado when I was in high school and we used to go camping.
We went on a “small boat” cruise in Alaska and went places where no one else was for miles and kayaked and hiked a long way from civilization….it was wonderful!
Yes. I’ve camped and/or hiked in remote locations in Connecticut, Texas and Washington. However, I saw scorpions in only one of those places!
I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Clam Gulch, Alaska before more people started frequenting the Peninsula as they tried to escape the city. We lived 2-1/2 miles off of the main road and our house was nestled perfectly in the trees with neighbors miles away. Growing up in the wilderness was our lifestyle!
We lived in Goetzville,MI (in Michigan’s U.P.) for 4 1/2 years. I would call that wilderness. Loved feeding the turkey’s and watching the deer raise their young. Walking the 40 acres with our dogs was so relaxing. Always discovering a new mushroom, plant or critter of some sort. I thought it was pretty cool how people wave to each other as they pass in their cars. People always willing to help was common as was meeting at the local café for coffee and some breakfast. Miss the winding country roads especially in fall.
Oops *place* to live!!
What a perfect play to live, amyc!!!
Since I live up on the side of a mountain and there’s nothing but forest behind me, I consider that a wilderness. Nothing like waking up in the morning and seeing turkeys in my back yard, a baby bear the size of a cat climbing my tree or just hearing the coyotes in the distance. Love it!!
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