This book is a work of historical fiction based closely on real people and real events. Details that cannot be historically verified are purely products of the author’s imagination.
Copyright © 2008 by Jane Kirkpatrick
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kirkpatrick, Jane, 1946–
A mending at the edge / Jane Kirkpatrick. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Change and cherish historical series)
eISBN: 978-0-307-45930-5
1. Giesy, Emma Wagner—Fiction. 2. Women pioneers—Fiction. 3. Washington
(State)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.I712M46 2008
813’.54—dc22
2007041707
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