Every Suitor Wanted the Elder Sister—The Younger One Married the Man They All Overlooked

"Every Suitor Wanted the Elder Sister-The Younger One Married the Man They All Overlooked" | Western Drama Audiobook Oklahoma Territory, 1897. Lydia Whitcomb is twenty two, and every Sunday she digs holes in the orchard while the front room fills up with young men who have come four miles to look at her sister. The colony company keeps a book. In one ruled column it lists the daughters of the settlement, and beside Lydia's name the registrar has written two words in a flat clerk's voice, in front of two hundred people. Domestic help. Unlisted. She believes that is simply what she is worth. Then a plain man on a mule comes up the lane in mended trousers, walks straight past the suitors on the porch, and goes out to the trees. He is the only caller who ever asked her a question. The suitors name him the tree peddler and laugh at both of them all summer. But Lydia has been digging up dead trees on nineteen farms, and what she found under the bark is going to cost sixty one families their land in October, unless she can prove it in front of the whole colony first. One knife. One shallow cut. Three hundred people watching a girl nobody had listed. This western historical drama audiobook features a plain spoken stranger with a debt nineteen years old, an overlooked young woman with a dead man's knife in her apron, and the quiet dignity of a promise finally kept.