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What does it take to hold to your beliefs when the country around you offers few comforts?
In A Voice in the Wilderness, Grace Livingston Hill places a young teacher in the wide, rough country of the American West. Distance, weather and few comforts test her resolve. At the heart of her journey lies a question: how do you turn faith into daily action?
This gentle romance brings Christian belief, courage and love into the same story. Hill makes character matter: steadiness shapes relationships, and respect gives love room to grow. The pull is not toward a fast, violent Western, but toward the quiet strength of someone facing difficulty without surrendering her convictions.
What you’ll discover
- A teacher's resolve Follow a young woman whose journey brings faith and courage into unfamiliar country.
- The rough American West Enter a frontier setting where distance, weather and few comforts put resolve to the test.
- Faith in daily life Explore a story where Christian belief shapes choices rather than remaining only spoken words.
- Courage without grand gestures Discover the quiet strength Hill finds in small choices made under pressure.
- Love rooted in respect Find the appeal of a romance that values character and the way people bear difficulty.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy Christian romance, frontier schoolroom tales, brave heroines, rescues on horseback and stories where kindness changes hardened people.
What’s inside
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- A teacher is stranded beside a water tank
- A rough rider and a better rescuer
- Rough men can be won by gentleness
- Ashland brings a boarder, a dog and a boy
- Winning a rowdy school with a smile
- The visiting minister meets an unusual congregation
- A little glory comes to Mom Wallis
- A Shakespeare play and a rival in the wings
- Faith, trust and the cost of a hidden grudge
Who’s who
- Margaret EarleA minister's daughter and new teacher at Ashland, brave, musical and deeply faithful, who wants to do good in the wilderness.
- Lance GardleyCalled the Kid, a well-spoken young man living among rough cowboys, who is ashamed of his past and drawn to Margaret.
- Mom WallisThe worn wife of a drunken cattleman, starved for kindness and beauty until Margaret shows her she matters.
- Jasper KempA sturdy Scottish cowboy and leader of the bunkhouse men, with sharp eyes and a firm belief in right and wrong.
- Reverend Frederick WestA pompous Eastern minister who denies the old faith and wants to win Margaret's attention.
- Rosa RogersA pretty, spoiled rancher's daughter who is used to getting her way and resents her new teacher.
- Archie ForsytheA charming young man from the fort who toys with hearts and takes a dislike to Gardley.
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Une voix dans le désert
by Grace Livingston Hill · 1916
A young teacher steps off a train in the Arizona night and watches it vanish with her stranded beside a water tank.
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What would you do if the train pulled away without you, in the middle of the Arizona night? Margaret Earle, a minister's daughter on her way to her first teaching job, has to find out.
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A teacher is stranded beside a water tank
Margaret Earle steps down from her train, sure she has reached her station. It is only a stop to water the engine, and the cars roll away into the dark. She is left alone on the plain with a bruised knee, a heavy suitcase and the howl of coyotes.
She ties her suitcase to her wrist with her silk sash and climbs the rough spikes of the water tank. From the top she sees a sky of deep blue and huge stars, and she nearly forgets her fear. Then the loneliness comes back, and she calls for help.
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What is A Voice in the Wilderness about?
It follows Margaret Earle, a young Eastern teacher who takes a post in Ashland, Arizona. She is stranded on her first night, meets a young man named Gardley, and tries to change a rough frontier community through kindness and faith.
Who is Lance Gardley?
Gardley is the educated young man the cowboys call the Kid. He rescues Margaret on her first night, has a troubled past, and slowly changes through her friendship and example.
What does the title A Voice in the Wilderness mean?
It echoes the Bible's image of a calling voice in a barren place. In the story, Margaret's voice, her singing, her teaching and her prayers, reaches people in the Arizona desert who have long gone without hope.
The author
Grace Livingston Hill
1865–1947 · American Christian novelist
Grace Livingston Hill was an American novelist and short story writer. She was born in Wellsville, New York, in 1865 and later lived in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where she died in 1947. She wrote Christian romance novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Marcia Schuyler and The Man of the Desert.
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