[Mail Order Bride 13] • Cheyenne Mail Order Bride

*This is a novella of approximately 27,000 words. It is a work of western romantic fiction. As such, it has sexual content between a man and his wife. There are no clinical names used and there is no profanity or vulgarity.*

It is the story of a 21 year old whose husband was killed in the Battle of The Wilderness in Spotsylvania, Virginia. She is left expecting a child, living on a farm her family once owned and now share crops.

The story fast forwards to when she is thirty-four, and an older banker threatens her with eviction if she doesn’t marry him. Tired of the struggle to survive, she advertises for a husband in The Matrimonial News.

The hero is a Texan who, after striking it rich in the gold fields of Colorado, drives Texas cattle he purchased from distressed ranchers to Wyoming, where he sells the herd, taking advantage of the beef scarcity to make a huge profit. Never married, he advertises in The Matrimonial News for a bride..

Will this couple make a go of it? The story reveals all.