From Missouri: The Adventures of A Schoolteacher inThe West

From Missouri is a story of a young schoolteacher who comes out West from Missouri, invited by a series of letters from some mysterious Mr. Owen, who says there is an open teacher position in his city. When she arrives, it turns out that "Mr. Owen" was, in fact, a prank: some cowboys thought it was fun to write letters on their boss's typewriter. When Jane Stacey arrives, everyone is shocked to discover not a middle-aged lady but a beautiful young woman. Even after discovering she was lied to, she decides to stay on. Moreover, she has to find who Frank Owens was. Soon young Miss Stacey finds out all the trouble a pretty young woman has to endure when living among cowboys.

From the Back Cover

When the pretty new schoolteacher arrives, the Springer ranch hands are falling over themselves to impress her. Bill Springer is the only one sober enough to take matters in hand and drive her out to the ranch. But the lecherous Beady Jones has his own idea of how the new schoolmarm should be introduced to the West.

About the Author

Tom Weiner, a dialogue director and voice artist best known for his roles in video games and television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Transformers, is an Earphones Award winner and Audie Award finalist. He is a former member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.Zane Grey (1872-1939), born in Ohio, was practicing dentistry in New York when he and his wife published his first novel. Grey presented the West as a moral battleground in which his characters are destroyed because of their inability to change or are redeemed through a final confrontation with their past. The man whose name is synonymous with Westerns made his first trip west in 1907 at age thirty-five. More than 130 films have been based on his work.

Reviews

News