Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Hope Lyda, author of the One-Minute Prayer books and One Minute with God devotions, gathers select meditations from her Tea Light Moments for a Woman's Soul and Tea Light Moments to Refresh Your Day in this lovely edition. Blending faith, insight, and compassion, these devotions encourage women to take an inspirational break during their day to savor refreshing quotes from Scripture and literature reflections exploring wonder, contentment, and purpose prayer offerings of connection and hope Tea Light Moments for Women is beautifully designed for gift giving and for women to enjoy times of restoration and celebration in every season of life.

“Focuses on the lives of several prostitutes who worked in Death Valley area boomtowns between the 1870s and the early 1900s . . . Colorful and intriguing” (Pahrump Valley Times). From the 1870s to the turn of the century, while countless men gambled their fortunes in Death Valley’s mines, many bold women capitalized on the boom-and-bust lifestyle and established saloons and brothels. These lively ladies were clever entrepreneurs and fearless adventurers but also mothers, wives, and respected members of their communities. Madam Lola Travis was one of the wealthiest single women in Inyo County in the 1870s. Known as “Diamond Tooth Lil,” Evelyn Hildegard was a poor immigrant girl who became a western legend. Local author and historian Robin Flinchum chronicles the lives of these women and many others who were unafraid to live outside the bounds of polite society and risk everything for a better future in the forbidding Death Valley desert. Includes photos! “Flinchum’s lively prose and detailed descriptions bring these women into focus, and provide a historically accurate and interesting overview of Death Valley’s pioneering mining era.” —Sierra Wave Media “A thoroughly entertaining and highly enlightening account of the wild Death Valley boom camps’ daring red light ladies . . . A very enjoyable and engaging book. A great read!” —Richard Lingenfelter, author of Death Valley & the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion

These profiles of the soiled doves who plied the oldest trade in the Rocky Mountains explain many of the facts of life in the nineteenth and twentieth century West.

The most comprehensive study Bible ever prepared for women and by women, the CSB Study Bible for Women invites you to explore the riches of God's Word. Follow God's grand story across this Bible for women, guided by threads of specialized study that explain essential doctrines, answer hard questions, discuss biblical womanhood, and apply truth to our hearts and lives. The CSB Study Bible for Women is edited by Dr. Dorothy Kelley Patterson and Dr. Rhonda Harrington Kelley, both long-time women's ministry leaders, authors and seminary professors at two of the nation's most respected seminaries. As you learn from these women extensively educated in Biblical studies and languages and passionate about God's Word, you will be equipped in turn to mentor others in the truth and hope found in Scripture. Bibles for women that are so well-researched and in-depth are a valuable resource--and this women's study Bible is one of the most exhaustive study Bibles available. If you're looking for an excellent daily devotional Bible or a study Bible for women to help you dive deeper into God's Word, this Bible will be a useful resource in your Christian discipleship. Features include: 6,490 extensive study notes, Over 500 word studies, 25 full-color maps and reconstructions, and 95 charts, Introductions to each book of the Bible, A comprehensive concordance including every woman and reference to women in the Bible, Threads of specialized women's Bible study material woven throughout, pointing to God's larger story including: Biblical Womanhood articles, Answers to "Hard Questions", Character profiles, Doctrinal notes, "Written on My Heart" applications, Smyth-sewn binding, Two-column text in 9.25-point type. A woman's Bible that is great for preparing to teach future bible studies or for daily readings. The CSB Study Bible for Women features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB). The CSB stays as literal as possible to the Bible's original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture's life-transforming message and to share it with others.

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Expanding on the research she did for Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls (UNM Press), historian Jan MacKell moves beyond the mining towns of Colorado to explore the history of prostitution in the Rocky Mountain states of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each state had its share of working girls and madams like Big Nose Kate or Calamity Jane who remain celebrities in the annals of history, but MacKell also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose role in this illicit trade nonetheless shaped our understanding of the American West.