Sarah Holeman is no pampered southern belle. When Henry Stroud proposes, she warns him "God gave me a brain, and I intend to use it". Little did she realize how her strengths and talents would be challenged to outwit her brother-in-law's advances and threats, to raise seven children in the pre-Civil War South, to run the family hotel alone, and to outsmart Sherman's troops, who tried to loot and destroy the hotel to which she and Henry had devoted their lives. In Defending Hillsborough, the recently-widowed Sarah Stroud ...
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Sarah Holeman is no pampered southern belle. When Henry Stroud proposes, she warns him "God gave me a brain, and I intend to use it". Little did she realize how her strengths and talents would be challenged to outwit her brother-in-law's advances and threats, to raise seven children in the pre-Civil War South, to run the family hotel alone, and to outsmart Sherman's troops, who tried to loot and destroy the hotel to which she and Henry had devoted their lives. In Defending Hillsborough, the recently-widowed Sarah Stroud saves the historic Orange Hotel in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and keeps her husband's dream alive. The hotel still stands today, to attest to the strength and courage of a remarkable woman.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Signed by Author(s) 2nd Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 284. xv, 284, (3) pp. Second printing. Light stains on half-title page. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's first novel.
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