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IN Blue Creek Farm, the "prequel" to Matty's War, we meet young Matty Trescott, living with her Pa on a Kansas farm in 1860. Her mother dead and her brother riding for the Pony Express, Matty is often on her own to face the dangers of pre-Civil War Kansas.
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IT'S Christmas 1863 and far to the south, the Civil War is raging. Matty's War is based on the life of one of the 400 women who fought in the Union Army while disguised as men.
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Riding By Starlight follows the adventures of Matty Trescott's brother, Henry, first introduced in Blue Creek Farm, and his friend Bill Cody as they ride for the Pony Express, contend with buffalo stampedes and notorious outlaws, and help a pioneer family on their way to California.
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In Ring Out Wild Bells, the sequel to Matty's War , we follow Matty's cousin Neely to Mount Holyoke Seminary and Matty to medical school in Boston. There, the last words of a dying woman propel the cousins into an investigation of the woman's mysterious death.
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When her cat goes missing on a moonlit night, Amanda climbs out her bedroom window and enters a magical world filled with unusual cats.
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After finishing medical school, Matty and her new husband Tom settle in a small Kansas town founded by Matty's brother Henry. While Tom  learns to adjust to frontier life, Matty struggles for acceptance as a woman doctor, and Henry dreams of the life of a cattle baron.
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