

A Light in the Wilderness
Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Narrator: Karen Chilton
Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/02/2014
Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Jane Kirkpatrick
Narrator: Karen Chilton
Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/02/2014
Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction
Jane Kirkpatrick is the author of twenty books and is a two-time winner of the WILLA Literary Award. Her first novel, A Sweetness to the Soul, won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award, an honor given to writers such as Barbara Kingsolver and Larry McMurtry. For twenty-six years she "homesteaded" with her husband Jerry on a remote ranch in Eastern Oregon.  She now lives with Jerry, and her two dogs and one cat on small acreage in Central Oregon while she savors the value of friendship over fame.
This novel is based on the life of a real woman, Letitia Carson, a freed black woman, who traveled the Oregon Trail during the 1840's along with her Irishman husband, Davey, to settle into Oregon Territory to make new lives for themselves and raise a family. Letitia holds the dear the papers that pro......more
It's pre-Civil War. There's nothing more treasured to a Negro than "free papers". Unless they get in the wrong hands or a "hunter" tears them up. Letitia has these papers. She plans to take these papers all the way to Oregon with her white husband. Yep. You read correctly. But sadly, it wasn't legal......more
Some of the best historical fiction books are those based on true stories. The author's note at the end of this amazing and astonishing story impressed me. Jane Kirkpatrick surely knows how to tell a story and stick with the facts! Letitia Carson is clearly the main character in this novel. Her story......more
A Light in the Wilderness is a work of fiction based on the African American woman Letitia Carson who lived in the nineteenth century. It is a very inspiring story and left me in awe of women who lived at that time firstly, and then Letitia herself, Black African in a time where many were still slav......more
In A Light in the Wilderness, the reader is taken on a journey West along the Oregon Trail, experiencing the drama mainly from the eyes of a Letitia, a free, Black woman travelling with her White husband. Letitia was a real person, but her narrative is fictionalized. The author, Jane Kirkpatrick, in......more