Stop the Train!

Cissy Sissney have come to Oklahoma Territory for the land rush. Cissy's father has no interest in farming but he dreams of owning a general store on Main Street filled with goods offloaded from the railroad right in the town of Florence. The only problem is Florence doesn't yet exist. Cissy's mothe......more

For a while I thought this was going to be a politicized version of The Railway Children. Instead of kids waving their red petticoats in the air to stop a train in an act of humanitarian initiative and then receiving a reward as brave children of Britain and the Empire, we would have a gang of pione......more

I really enjoyed this book! It's about a small group of people trying to start up a town on the vast emptiness of Oklahoma. They are a railroad town, but do to certain circumstances the owner of the railroad is set against them and refuses to stop the train there. The book is how they grow as a com......more

LOVE, LOVE this book!!! I recommend it to everyone. It is certainly one of a kind!!!......more

I borrowed this from the library to see if I'd read it before, and the answer: yes. From the moment Cissy started picturing what Florence would look like, I knew I'd stumbled across this story of the western frontier before. Its characters are lively and diverse, dedicated and hardworking, strugglin......more