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Overview

Come in, enjoy a cup of coffee, and sit a spell with Harriet Murphy as she regales you with her tales of family, life, and love in the early 1900's in the former gold mining town of Old Pine near Lake Tahoe in Northern California. This is a period in U.S. history of great mechanical and cultural inventions as well as a time for women attempting to gain their well deserved right to vote.

Her tales revolve around a woman living alone in the hills of the Sierra Nevada with her horse, Pager, and a myriad of other wonderful and colorful characters. Her humble abode is the log cabin that her father built for her family soon after he came across the country in...
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Come in, enjoy a cup of coffee, and sit a spell with Harriet Murphy as she regales you with her tales of family, life, and love in the early 1900's in the former gold mining town of Old Pine near Lake Tahoe in Northern California. This is a period in U.S. history of great mechanical and cultural inventions as well as a time for women attempting to gain their well deserved right to vote.

Her tales revolve around a woman living alone in the hills of the Sierra Nevada with her horse, Pager, and a myriad of other wonderful and colorful characters. Her humble abode is the log cabin that her father built for her family soon after he came across the country in the great gold rush of 1849. Although he never struck it rich in the mines, he found it a unique, yet ideal, place to live and care for his wife and daughter, Henrietta.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780979307560
  • Publisher: Casa de Snapdragon Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 1/7/2009
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

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  • Posted February 22, 2009

    Harriet "Dang" Murphy is a sight to behold, a GREAT read

    Boy oh boy...Oprah should get this one.. I could not wait to turn the pages to read what happens next. This book is pure joy filled with laughter, adventure, tears, shock, awe and even a few mysterious spirits of the Tahoe. I loved the time period ( turn of the centry) and each character woven into the stories have their unique "self" that Janet Brennan carries throughout consistently.
    Each of the chapters holds a unique story that is somewhat resolved at the end, yet, the stories are all interconnected and flow wonderfully. Janet K. Brennan PLEEEEEZE don't make me wait too long for a sequel...Peggie Devan

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  • Posted January 30, 2009

    Review for Harriet Murphy; a Little Bit of Something - CarrieAnn Thunell

    How truly wonderful to find such down-to-earth stories about a woman of great strength of character! A feminist for her time, this gal weathaers many storms of indifference and judgmentalism as she goes about the business of surviving as she sees best fit. It is with some relief that I have finally found a story teller who can spin a tale that warms the heart father than degrades it as so many of the modern writers do! It is much better to have one's spirit lifted, and perhaps even enlightened, rather thn dragged through the mud of depravity that fat woo many authors find necessary.

    CarrieAnn Thunell - Editor in Chief, Nisqualey Delta Review

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  • Posted January 30, 2009

    Harriet Murphy, Little Bit of Something Review by Doug Jenkins. author

    The book cover flap of Janet K. Brennan¿s latest release, Harriet Murphy: A Little Bit Of Something, invited me to grab a cup of coffee, sidle up to the table of a nineteenth century log cabin, and accept a freshly baked piece of apple brown sugar pie. The baker of said pie, it seemed, wanted to tell me her story. So I did, and what a vivacious story it is!

    Born in 1875, Henrietta Murphy, whose name would later be reduced to simply Harriet, was the sole child to parents who, in 1850, followed their hopes for gold to the small mining community of Old Pine along the American River in Tahoe, California. The colorfulness of the life that was to follow (which is golden in itself), is indicated by the post-christened addition of a previously nonexistent middle name, Dang.

    Harriet Dang Murphy led me through the saga of her first thirty-seven years, one that most people twice her age would be hard pressed to experience. She describes a single woman¿s life in that great untamed West, regaling me with humorous stories, such as pulling a woman from the local church choir out of a grave that she had fallen into after getting drunk on several small bottles of elixir from her doctor. She recounts the mud-pit of trying to decide how to deal with a married, traveling appliance salesman named Henry Longfellow, who dupes her into a love affair.

    She drew me into her heart with the accounts of losing a baby daughter, Rose Tender, to pre-mature birth, and the fostering of another daughter, whose name happened to be the same, and of surviving the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, only to lose her cousin, her only living relative, in the aftermath.

    I was by her side as she survived fires, floods, falling into an abandoned mine shaft, being bitten by a rattlesnake, killing a grizzly bear, and having her foot amputated. And I rejoiced with her as she is able to adopt her second Rose Tender as her own daughter and discovers the blessings of true friends and real wealth.

    Ms. Brennan¿s casual, down-home style is warm and cozy, yet quick paced and teasing, enticing you to turn the next page and read just one more chapter against the objections of a post-midnight clock. So, I heartily invite you to join me. Grab a cup of coffee and sidle up to the table for your first piece of Harriet¿s apple-brown sugar pie (I¿ve had more than I can count) and ¿as sure as a sure-footed mule crossing a rocky-bottomed river¿ you will find yourself intoxicated on these stories like you were drinking the Irish whiskey from Ole Seb¿s Tavern. Brennan has struck a deep vein of story-telling gold with this one, and I advise you to get in on the rush to Harriet Murphy: A Little Bit of Something, by Janet K. Brennan; you¿ll be the richer for it!



    D. Allen Jenkins
    Author: The Making of Tibias Ivory: Freedom¿s Quest

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