It takes the average reader 11 hours and 1 minute to read Westward Women by Birch Pontius
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"Book I, The Lady of Athenia," deals with a 23-year-old widowed Southern Belle, punished by vengeful Union Officers who order the destruction of her Mississippi plantation, Athenia, forcing the now destitute Davida Julianna Asherton to head West. After much hardship, she finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy to murder President Andrew Johnson. "Book II, The Bright Sentinel," concerns a 17-year-old emancipated slave. Her story covers Maryland plantation life, the cruelty of her Scottish father, and her perilous escape to Washington, D.C. The Creole beauty is enmeshed in a political scandal, grabs blackmail money and hurriedly boards the first stagecoach West. She meets her future husband, a gun-toting cattle ranch foreman, and both are hired by the government to discredit the leader of the Crow Indians, who are threatening to overrun Wyoming-Dakota Territory. "Book III, Flaxen-Haired Warrior," focuses on a German Count's family destroyed in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. 19-year-old Countess Lisl Maria Von Ost flees toward France. An expert swordswoman, she is forced to kill three enemy soldiers who attacked her. Hired assassins chase her through warring France and neutral Belgium. Fleeing for her life, she finds ship's passage to America and discovers that paid killers pursue her even there. Desperate, Maria escapes into the western frontier.
Westward Women by Birch Pontius is 646 pages long, and a total of 165,376 words.
This makes it 218% the length of the average book. It also has 202% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 3 minutes to read Westward Women aloud.
Westward Women is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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