The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire

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The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire

by Margaret Vandercook

EN·~4 hours

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Description

Across the sprawling Wyoming prairie, Jacqueline Ralston—once known as Lady Kent—rides back to the Rainbow Ranch she once called home. After her English husband’s death, she and her young son Jimmie arrive with the weight of aristocratic expectations trailing behind them. The landscape, painted in gold‑tinged clouds and fields of purple clover, mirrors the freedom she has always craved.

Now she faces a quiet but profound choice: remain on the open range, raising Jimmie among the ranch hands who have become family, or return to England to fulfill a title she never embraced. Her conversation with longtime friend Jim Colter reveals a heart torn between duty and the untamed spirit of the West. Listeners will join Jacqueline as she weighs love, identity, and the promise of a life lived on her own terms.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (239K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2011-08-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Margaret Vandercook

Margaret Vandercook

1876–1958

Best known for lively girls’ adventure series, this American children’s writer filled her books with travel, friendship, and wartime service. Her stories helped shape early 20th-century popular fiction for young readers, especially the Camp Fire Girls, Ranch Girls, Red Cross Girls, and Girl Scouts books.

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