A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845
In A Heart for Any Fate, Crew creates a riveting, fictional story from the bare facts of an extended family’s grueling journey across the Continental Divide. Illness and death claim some members, and grief and sorrow temper the survivors’ jubilation when they finally reach the promised Eden in Oregon.
In the spring of 1845, the King family of Carroll County, Missouri, loaded five covered wagons and set out for Oregon. Historical records tell us the route they chose.
Seventeen-year-old Lovisa narrates in a wholly believable voice that vividly evokes a young woman’s daily life on the trail. Readers (along with Lovisa’s family and friends) will recognize love brewing long before she does, and her marriage forms a warm coda to the exhausting journey.
- About the author: Linda Crew is the award-winning author of nine novels and now, two memoirs. Her readers range in age from children who enjoy the Nekomah Creek books to adults who have appreciated her recent cross-over titles such as Brides of Eden: A True Story Imagined, and A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845. She and her husband live in her hometown of Corvallis, Oregon, at Wake Robin Farm, where they were married under the oak trees forty-five years ago. When not writing, she enjoys working on their forest properties.
