![]() ![]() There are pleasures along the way: nice folks, and quiet days spent with Luke, her ""Darling Boy."" But Luke, who doesn't smile at her jokes, works very hard and doesn't like her to flirt with him. Nonetheless, he chooses her, and they head out from Iowa in May 1865 to the homestead Luke has already planted in Colorado Territory. At 22, plain Mattie is astounded that handsome Luke Spenser desires to marry her-he has been keeping company with pretty Persia. Again, as in The Persian Pickle Club (1995), Dallas has caught the lilt and drift of regional speech. The buoyancy and simple, uncloying sweetness of spirit of Dallas's appealing protagonist-the young wife of a homesteader in Colorado Territory-give a bright, fresh shading to the tragedies and small sharp joys of 19th-century frontier life. ![]()
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