A CLEARING IN THE WILD
PUBLISHED BY WATERBROOK PRESS
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked (RSV) are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

This book is a work of historical fiction based closely on real people and real events. Details that cannot be historically verified are purely products of the author’s imagination.

eISBN: 978-0-307-55069-9

Copyright © 2006 by Jane Kirkpatrick

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946–
  A clearing in the wild / Jane Kirkpatrick.—1st ed.
      p. cm. — (Change and cherish series ; bk. 1)
 1. Women pioneers—Fiction. 2. Social isolation—Fiction. I. Title.
  PS3561.I712C57 2006
  813′.54—dc22

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