1877-1948 mysteries homecoming borderland

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We Won't Ever Tell
Ellen Gray Massey

Amazon, 2006

I'm very interested in conditions in Missouri where fighting began before the Civil War in 1857 and continued into the 1880s. Most people aren't aware of the unique position of Missouri as one of the Border States. I love historic fiction myself and believe it a great way to teach. I wrote this story, for children and adults, to help explain in a narrative form a version of slavery from the point of view of a young boy and his twin sister.

A Candle Within Her Soul: Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey & Her Ozarks, 1877-1948

1 review
Ellen Gray Massey

Napsac Reproductions, 1996

An easy read of life in the ozarks
A clear picture of life as it was lived by actual--if rather unordinary -- people.

The Burnt District [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML]
Ellen Gray Massey

Hard Shell Word Factory, 2001

During the Civil War in western Missouri, Hannah and her three small daughters are moved as military prisoners to a detention camp because they did not obey Order # 11. The order demanded everyone in four counties along the Kansas border evacuate within fifteen days. With ingenuity and bravery, Hannah and the girls escape and return to their prairie home. Based on historic facts and records, the story tells how the four of them evade ...

New Hope
Ellen Gray Massey

Hard Shell Word Factory, 2004

In the 1935 Ozarks, Claudia begins to a new school with an optimistic name, New Hope. Having been jilted causes her to dedicate her life to her students. Her life, and that of two favorite students and their father, changes as they overcome their past-- her humiliation and his runaway wife.

Brothers, Blue & Gray
Ellen Gray Massey, 2007

Merryman's Crossing
Ellen Gray Massey

Avalon Books, 1999

Merryman's Crossing is Ellen's ninth AVALON book. Other recently published titles include Home is the Heart, Music of My Soul, and And Tyler, Too?.

Brothers, Blue and Gray
Ellen Gray Massey

Amazon, 2006

A participant in one of my Elderhostel classes told me briefly the story of her ancestor during the Civil War. After the Battle of Lexington in Missouri, this nineteen-year-old girl paddled twenty miles up the Missouri River from her home to the battlefield to bring home her two brothers who had been killed - one in the Union Army and the other with the Confederacy. She buried one on the north and the other on the south side of the cemetery. I ...

Her Enemies, Blue & Gray
Ellen Gray Massey

Goldminds Publishing LLC, 2008

Fenton's Leap

2 reviews
Libba Moore Gray

Simon & Schuster (Juv), 1994

Paradigm for our times
This paradigm for our times details the life of a frog called Fenton who is given a pair of rose tinted spectacles by a catfish and then charges headlong into a life of virtual business. Unfortunately a passing cod knocks them off one day and Fenton's business world is revealed to be as solid as the emperor's new clothes. Inevitably Fenton is forced to see reality and has no choice but to leap ...

MYSTERIES OF THE OZARKS, VOL II
Ellen Gray Massey

Skyward Publishing, 2006

Stories of mystery, intrigue, and suspense by our honor roll of Ozark writers: Jory Sherman, Dusty Richards, Ellen Gray Massey, Velda Brotherton, Radine Trees Nehring, Larry Woods, Barrie Bumgarner, Kay Hively, Vicki Cox, Jane Hale, and many others. 'It's

Home Is the Heart - An Avalon Romance
Ellen Gray Massey

Noonday Press, 1999

Home Is the Heart is Ellen's eighth AVALON book. Other recently published titles include Music of My Soul and And Tyler, Too?

Music of My Soul
Ellen Gray Massey

Thomas Bouregy & Company, 1998

Music of My Soul is Ellen's sixth AVALON book. Other recently published titles include A Grave Situation, Too Many Secrets, and The Bequest.

Borderland Homecoming - An Avalon Western
Ellen Gray Massey

Avalon Books, 2000

Tired and spent, Lieutenant Schell Campbell and army scout Walking Owl returned home from the Civil War in 1866 and thought they were done with fighting. But when they met in Independence, Missouri, they were greeted by hostile neighbors and destructive bushwhackers in the Missouri-Kansas border country. As if that wasn't enough, a posse mistakes them for Jesse and Frank James. They manage to make friends with Schell's neighbors, the McFalls, ...

Bittersweet Country

1 review

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1986

A HIDDEN GEM
This is one of those regional books that certainly should have gotten wider distribution and wider press. It was put together by a number of High School English students in Lebanon, Missoui and edited by Ms. Ellen Gray Massey. This is a large collection of personal recollections, stories, and record of how people in the Ozarks lived several generations ago. These are first hand recollections, ...

And Tyler, Too?
Ellen Gray Massey

Thomas Bouregy & Company, 1998

And Tyler, Too? is Ellen's seventh AVALON book. Other recently published titles include Music of My Soul , A Grave Situation , and Too Many Secrets .

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