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With the aid of trapper Alex Armistead, widow Grace Martindale uses her midwifery skills to help the natives in the untamed Oregon Country, but not everyone welcomes her presence, and she finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined.
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2 primary booksHeart of the Frontier is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Tracie Peterson.
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A well-done fictional story about the early days in Oregon Territory and the Whitman Massacre. I really liked Grace as a character and found it easy to relate to her.
One thing that bugged me was the portrayal of Whitman as a self-focused autocrat because I've never heard his character read that way before. In the audio version, it also bugged me that the narrator kept saying “neszh purse” instead of “nay pur-say” for Nez Percé (which apparently is a common pronunciation now, but definitely wasn't in the time period of the story). Otherwise it's a really enjoyable(?) story despite the heart-wrenching issues with the massacre.