Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Bride of the Rockies by Angela Breidenbach

May 17, 2022

Book: Bride of the Rockies

Author: Angela Breidenbach

Genre: Historical Romance

Release date: January 1, 2022

For botanist, Bettina Gilbert, mining is an offense against God’s green earth. With the shortage of women in Montana, Luke travels to Chicago to manage the Montana mining exhibition hoping to also find a wife. Only that pretty botanist keeps disrupting his mining presentations … and his chances of meeting the right woman! A city girl who despises his way of life would be the worst choice for a miner’s wife, wouldn’t she?

Uplifting, wholesome romance set in the Gilded Age during Chicago’s World Fair. Written by bestselling author and professional genealogist, Angela Breidenbach. Accurate to history while entertaining, inspiring, with a lovely ambiance of hope.

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I really enjoy Historical Fiction and I also enjoy reading books from a Series. I have read this series from Book 1 and this is now Book 5 in this series, Queen of the Rockies. Bride of the Rockies by Angela Breidenbach is the newest book in the series and I had the honor of reading it.

This book takes us back to 1893 to the Chicago's World Fair. Luke Edwards is a Coal Miner from Montana. He travels to Chicago to help with the Montana Mining Exhibit. He also is hoping to find a Wife in his travels and time in Chicago. Bettina Gilbert is a Botanist and believes that Mining destorys the Earth. Bettina is at the World Fair making a Presentation on Farming Techiniques and she has career goals for her future. Her family would love to see her get married and settle down. Luke and Bettina are introduced to one another and Luke wonders why the "City Girl" keeps interuppting his presentation, and it is making him frustated that he might not find a Wife. Could the Botanist "City Girl", who has completely different beliefs then he does, be "the one"? Will Luke and Bettina have a relationship?

I LOVE Historical ficton because I always learn so much. I really LOVED reading about the Chicago's World Fair. I am born and raised in the Chicago area, so this bit of History was familiar to me, but I enjoyed reading it! I really enjoyed reading about Luke and Bettina's interactions with each other and watching the "complete opposite" relationship grow. This small book was a fast read, but a WONDERFUL book! Each book in this series is AMAZING! I HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone who enjoys Christian Historical Fiction.

Angela Breidenbach is a professional genealogist, media personality, conference speaker, bestselling author of eighteen books, and screenwriter. Angela lives in Montana with her hubby and Muse, a trained fe-lion, who shakes hands, rolls over, and jumps through a hoop. Surprisingly, Angela can also. Catch her show and podcast, Genealogy Publishing Coach!

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Rabbit trails. The paths that draw a writer away from her planned research. That’s what happened when I started researching Queen of the Rockies. I hopped down a rabbit trail that took me into an entirely different story. Here I was writing about the beginning of Montana as a state, the real people, and the unusual stories of the Gilded Age. Then a thread of the Chicago World’s Fair kept popping up like little bunnies in the middle of the field that darted here and there.

Well, those little rabbit trails captured my fascination. I couldn’t stop chasing them. I wanted to know more about why people who were busy carving out a new state would want to travel halfway across the country and live in Chicago for five months. Why would they care? What were their goals? Who were these unusual people? So, I did the smart thing. I started a new document to think about writing a later story.

The more I researched the first book in this series, Queen of the Rockies, the more I found tidbits of names that reappeared in newspapers. Then I followed a few of those names just to see what had become of them. I found a lot more than I expected. From the social pages in newspapers to club minute books to journals the stories of some really interesting women came to light. Their goals were much more than for one family or one town. These people found a cause bigger than themselves. They found a bond in forging a state that held respectability in the world’s eyes. These people were tired, and offended, of the constant slur — the Wild West. And they were going to change that erroneous misconception!

The rest of civilization didn’t understand how modern, elegant, and valuable Montana was in the 1890s. But the people of Montana were about to prove their infant state was the shining star on the American flag. She was no infant. This beautiful state, whose capitol was fully electric already, could hold her own among the elegant countries slated to be at that fair in 1893.

Come turn the pages of Bride of the Rockies and find out what these people, and especially the women, did to put Montana in the world headlines. See why they stunned with never before seen discoveries displayed in their pavilion during the Columbian Exposition. Can you imagine being given 10% of the budget while the men had 90%, in essence set up as the underdog, and blowing the world away with what you do with it? Walking away with the win? Not just one win…seven!

Bride of the Rockies took me on a fabulous rabbit trail of research. I hope this story will be fun for you, too!