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Pat Benedict Jurgens

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Pat Jurgens is a writer and retired librarian who has published numerous articles in local and regional magazines. She has won awards from the Denver Women’s Press Club, Poetry Society of Colorado, and Jefferson County Historical Commission. She loves living in an old mountain cabin with her husband Carl and rescue dog Zoe. Falling Forward, a Woman’s Journey West is her first novel.

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Pat Benedict Jurgens I'd go back in time to the pioneer era of American history. I love the stories of people coming west in the 19th century. Especially the women - what …moreI'd go back in time to the pioneer era of American history. I love the stories of people coming west in the 19th century. Especially the women - what were they thinking? Most of them traveling because their men wanted the adventure of a new land. Were they excited, afraid, reluctant, pressured beyond reason? The diaries I've read did not typically describe their feelings. That's where we authors come in!(less)
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Falling Forward: A Woman's Journey West has now been named for two more awards:
2022 CIBA Goethe Award Finalist in Historical Fiction and
2023 Feathered Quill Bronze Award in Women's Fiction
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