Station Master's Wife

<p>From respectable station master's wife to secret madam Alice was a woman of exceptional resourcefulness in the the face of upheaval betrayal and prejudice. In 1887 Ashland Oregon this daughter of a prominent pioneer family witnessed the historic completion of the United States Transcontinental Railroad a circle of steel that enveloped the United States when the final Golden Spike was hammered in to place in this small Southern Oregon town.</p><p>The rails changed everything for this previously isolated hamlet as well as for Alice. Her family story revealing secret passions the true grit of a single mother and betrayals by men is set among true historical events that span half a century. </p><p>Meet bygone characters like the Father of the Blues the inventor of the Curve Ball the founder of a National Park a lumber baron who profited from rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake train robbers bank robbers and sensational divorcees who impacted the turn of the 20th century. </p>