{"product_id":"bargain-bride-evelyn-sibley-lampman-9781948959711","title":"Bargain Bride","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo Ginny, almost anything would be better than living with the miserly, good-for-nothing, distant cousins who had claimed her and all she possessed when her parents had died of fever during the wagon-train journey to Oregon Territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of ten they had married her off-for a very good price-to a much older farmer, because girls were in great demand since married men could take title to twice the amount of land the government allowed a bachelor. On her fifteenth birthday, kindly Mr. Mayhew came to claim his bride. Unfortunately, on that same day he had a stroke and Ginny, the young Widow Mayhew, was left in possession of his well-built house and flourishing farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sometimes amusing and often touching story, in which Ginny learns to fend off a stream of suitors who have their eyes only on her rich farmland, gives a vivid sense of life as it was during a brief period in our history when marriage was often considered a practical necessity instead of an affair of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Evelyn Sibley Lampman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948959712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948959711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Purple House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Evelyn Sibley Lampman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075019763967,"sku":"9781948959711","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9f589cdf-e5fd-4a50-b331-ec14ee6ce52f.jpg?v=1685457135","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bargain-bride-evelyn-sibley-lampman-9781948959711","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}