Hardscrabble by SANDRA DALLAS y PUBLISHED by SLEEPING BEAR PRESS
For Forrest and his cousin the amazing Magnolia Marie Cole s
CHAPTER ONE Coming to Colorado b Where’s Papa Belle Martin asked looking around the train station Carrie shook her head Hush she whispered Belle frowned Was Carrie suggesting that if she hadn’t asked about Papa Mama wouldn’t have noticed he wasn’t there to meet them Belle searched the depot hoping to spot her father Perhaps he was lost in the crowd of people milling about She saw men removing farm equipment that had come in on the train and putting it into wagons A boy helped his father lift bags of seeds out of one of the cars and stack them on the depot platform A woman wearing a worn shawl over 1
