{"product_id":"2940044599079","title":"Homestead in Our Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Momma, I’m so very tired of walkin’. Will we ever find a home?” Six-year-old Carrie Wells looked up into her mother’s face, her blue eyes brimming with tears as she struggled to climb the steep, rocky rut that local people called a road. Amanda’s throat caught as she looked down into her daughter’s gaunt pale face. She answered, “We will have a home agin’, child. We will. Poppa says we’re very close. He thinks we’ll sleep at Uncle Billie and Auntie Caroline’s very, very soon.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarrie sighed. “I hope it’s prettier there, than it is here, Momma. I hate the color green. Everythin’ here is green. So many greens. Green moss. Green trees, with prickly green limbs. Green stuff hangin’ everywhere. Rocks even covered with green: slimey, slippery green; I hate it, Momma!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe sighed again, as she continued. “I love the sky, Momma. Clean, blue sky. Blue, flat sky. Yes, very flat. No mountains. No ups. No downs, Yellow, brown…gold…an’ flat. I ‘member our las’ spot we called home. Gold colors. Warm. Prairie grass. Dry oak leaves, rustlin’ on the trees. No sticky-leaf green trees, bristling and poking you, suckin’ away the sunshine a’fore it hits your skin. Momma, that’s home. I miss it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmanda thought about which home Carrie might remember best. Over these past five years, their journey west had become a sojourn. One place, then another and another. Each, a heartbreak, tough times over and over again.\u003cbr\u003eThey were desperate to begin a new life after the tragedies and losses experienced during the Civil War.\u003cbr\u003eAfter a five-year struggle to complete their journey, the Wells family will make a new home in one of the most remote, rugged corners of the United States: Tillamook County.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nancy Maddux Thornton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077831639280,"sku":"2940044599079","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044599079_p0.jpg?v=1763963005","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044599079","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}