Skitterbrain

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>From award-winning author Irene Bennett Brown comes </em></strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)><em>a heartwarming story of a young pioneer girl who wanted only one thing out of life and would not give up until she found it.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Larnie Moran finds her family's milk cow gone she knows she's the one at fault. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Morans have to have that cow for Larnie's sickly mother is about to have a child and the infant will need milk. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Larnie can not-will not-ask her Papa to get Bessie back for her and risk being called a skitterbrain once again. Instead she </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>follows a large cattle herd across the empty prairie in search of the runaway cow-j</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>ust in time to see it join a passing trail herd and lose itself among the thousands of steers. </span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Along the trail to Wichita she runs into Buzzard a tough boy younger than she but a lot stronger who scornfully orders her to go home. Nearly made prisoner by a mad lonely woman seeking her lost family befriended by a sodbuster family and discovering that she will have to search through twenty thousand heads of beef steers for her lone cow her journey is nothing but easy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Follow this high-spirited young frontier heroine in a wild and wooly adventure rich in history and female courage.</em></strong></p>