1987 "second printing"; signed by the author Jane Roberts Wood and by Jean Stapleton (actress); Ellen C. Temple publisher, Austin , Texas; very good condition of book, covers and dust jacket; includes a cut-out article from The Dallas Morning News with photo of Actress Jean Stapleton and Jane Roberts Wood about this book (pic).
 
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Lucy is feisty, funny, and completely open-armed about life. Josh passionately confronts danger and greed and prejudice with courage and humor and, sometimes, with bare fists. Even the minor characters are so rife with color that you first turn the pages quickly to see what they will do next and, then, you turn them slowly so as to savor each page of this remarkable trilogy.

“I have longed for a wider world, a great adventure. And now it’s here. I’m so happy I can hardly breathe.” So ends seventeen-year-old Lucinda Richards’ diary entry for August 17, 1911, starting her job as the new school teacher for the White Star school in the Panhandle. Jane Roberts Wood brings to this delightful and affecting epistolary novel a tender touch and a wry sense of humor.