The Price of a Contract - Fisher, Ellen Kingman
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When railroads met at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869, the world changed. For the first time, trains spanned the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, bringing the telegraph with them. Instant communication transformed that society much as the Internet would a future generation. Kate Sinclair is a fiercely independent woman during a time when women were deemed passive, even inconsequential. She boldly travels from New York to San Francisco on one of the first transcontinental railroads, where she meets Frank Ellsworth, a handsome stranger going west for a job with Western Union. Frank is…mehr

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When railroads met at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869, the world changed. For the first time, trains spanned the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, bringing the telegraph with them. Instant communication transformed that society much as the Internet would a future generation. Kate Sinclair is a fiercely independent woman during a time when women were deemed passive, even inconsequential. She boldly travels from New York to San Francisco on one of the first transcontinental railroads, where she meets Frank Ellsworth, a handsome stranger going west for a job with Western Union. Frank is hard to resist. Industrious and alluring. It is his responsibility to ensure Western Union remains the dominant telegraph company. The company faces stiff competition from ever-evolving technology and greedy industrialists bent on amassing wealth by any means necessary. As Kate and Frank fall in love, everything seems right, but when Frank hints at something lasting, he is met with resistance. Is Kate's life haunted by family secrets? Is she afraid that a commitment means loss of independence? The Price of a Contract is a story of love and mistakes during the tumultuous era of greed, political corruption, and inequality later coined the Gilded Age. The setting is a particular time period, but the issues of relationships, personal decisions, and business ethics are timeless. The Price of a Contract is the second historical fiction in a series about business entrepreneurs in the American West. From the first book, Hill's Gold, fans will recognize Nathaniel and Alice Hill, innovators in the frontier West- this time as secondary characters.
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Dr. Fisher was a senior program officer with the Gates Family Foundation and the Director of the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver. She served on the board of the Colorado State Historical Society (now History Colorado) for 28 years and on the Advisory Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for 9 years, and was president of the Junior League of Denver. She was awarded the Molly Brown Spirit Award by Historic Denver for community service and the Alumni Recognition Award by the University of Colorado at Denver for her role in developing the public history (applied history) program at CU Denver. Her publications include Junior League: Leaders in Community Service 1918-1993, (Colorado Historical Society), Power's Dynamo Unloosed: Henry L. Doherty and the Denver Gas and Electric Company," (Essays and Monographs in Colorado History), and One Hundred Years of Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado (Garland Press). Hill's Gold, her her first novel, was awarded first place in historical fiction by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association and was also a finalist in western fiction for the Colorado Authors 2018 awards. The author has spent most of her life in Colorado enjoying the outdoors, which includes climbing all of Colorado's fourteeners, Mt. Rainier, and Kilimanjaro. She and her husband have three grown children and four grandsons.