Best Selling Books by Mary Carter

The American flag blows in the wind.

A true story of "Mary Jones in Wales who heard portions of the Bible in 1792, when she was eight years of age. She frequently walked two miles to a neighbor's house to read the Bible. She worked for six years and saved the money for her very own Bible. Then she walked 25 miles to get a Bible in Welsh. "Is it really for me?" she whispered. "It is for you my child," said "Mr. Edwards, "a just reward for all your earnest work and trust" . . . Holding her Bible clasped to her breast, head erect and a smile on her face, she went on her way home. Weariness, hunger and thirst did not bother her. This true story led to the organization of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Diary account of trip by rail from Charleston to San Francisco and Los Angeles via Augusta, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, Leavenworth, Denver, Cheyenne, Salt Lace City, Reno, and Sacramento; detailed observations re traveling, food, hotels, geography, and sites visited. Including "the town [Chattanooga] is made up of about half & half Northerners and Southerners, who live as one people...they seem united in one great purpose in life to make good citizens"; between St. Louis and Kansas City she impressed by " the richest of prairie lands" and the Missouri River, "a savage muddy ugly stream"; visit to Fort Leavenworth where brother-in-law George D. Wallace (1849-1890) was stationed, account of visit to prison, and description of manufacturing there; visit to Denver where "My good Liege Lord [fell] in with several old S.C. friends with whom he spent many hours of pleasantry"; traveling from Denver to Salt Lake City, records the barren country, railroad camps, and Evanston, "a celebrated coal mining region" -- "There we saw Indians & Chinese & Negroes & Americans all mixed up together"; lecture by Brigham Young, Jr. at Mormon Tabernacle; visit to Chinatown and observation that the Chinese "are a busy, thrifty, industrious race."

2019 Planner with a photo of a steaming cup of cappuccino on the cover

This 200-page lined 6"x9" journal notebook diary features a water alley in Venice, Italy.