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What if the place that shapes your heart also makes you long for a wider life?
In Sally of Missouri, Rose E. Young brings romance into the wooded hills and narrow valleys of the Ozarks. Sally’s world is one of small farms, neighbors, work and old loyalties. Against this close-knit background, love and ambition pull at a young woman whose hopes reach beyond what her surroundings first seem to offer.
Affection must find its way past family expectations, social rank and distance. Belonging matters, but so does the desire for something more. This romance explores that tension through a spirited heroine and a landscape that shapes her choices. The pleasures lie in the sense of place, the local manners and the competing claims of home and hope.
What you’ll discover
- The wooded Ozark hills Enter a Missouri landscape of woods, hollows, small farms and clear streams.
- A heroine with spirit Meet Sally, a young woman shaped by home yet drawn toward wider possibilities.
- Love under pressure Explore a romance where affection faces family expectations, social rank and the barriers of distance.
- The pull of belonging Consider what home offers when ambition begins to point beyond familiar surroundings.
- A world of local loyalties Discover the neighbors, work and manners that give this regional romance its sense of place.
Who will love it
This book suits readers who love romance in a sunlit landscape, small towns full of gossip, treasure hunts and boom times, and warm-hearted characters.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A lonely New Yorker meets Missouri head on
- An old Frenchman and a singing boy appear
- Canaan has a banker who runs everything
- Sally Madeira appears and a mine tests him
- A father, a secret, and a garden of dreams
- A ride to Salome Park ends in a fight
- Ore is found and the winter wears on
- Honest work is set against a boom of paper
- Love makes people choose between two loyalties
- A warm voice, rich color, and a land that sings
Who’s who
- Bruce SteeringA Yale-educated New Yorker with little money, he comes west to mine zinc on hills he will inherit and slowly falls for Missouri and a woman.
- Sally MadeiraThe banker's tall, amber-eyed daughter, she is full of energy, fond of her garden, and hopes to find what she truly wants.
- Crittenton MadeiraA big, loud promoter and banker, he runs Canaan, sells shares in a mine not yet dug, and adores his daughter.
- Old BerniqueA courtly French prospector from St. Louis, he has hunted for ore in the Tigmores for twenty years and looks after Piney.
- PineyA tramp boy of sixteen or seventeen with a clear tenor voice, he roams the hills and eventually leaves for Italy.
- CaringtonSteering's best friend in New York, he urges him to try Missouri and later backs his friend's plans from far away.
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Sally of Missouri
by Rose E. Young · 1903
A broke New York man rides into the Missouri hills, where every farmer talks of a girl named Sally.
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Picture a young traveler from New York on an Ozark ridge road, twenty miles from the nearest railroad. Every farmer he asks about the next town answers in sights instead of miles.
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- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1903by Rose E. Young
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A lonely New Yorker meets Missouri head on
The book opens on the crest of the Tigmore Hills. Bruce Steering, a young Yale graduate from New York, stops his horse and studies the wild country below him. He has come because his friend Carington told him to try Missouri, and because his money is running thin.
His old life drifts back in pictures: a bachelor hotel, an office on Nassau Street where he only pretended to work, and Miss Gossamer, a girl of lace and silk. Next to the grass moving in long green waves, none of it feels real.
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Young, Rose E. Sally of Missouri. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/sally-of-missouri.
Young, R. E. (2026). Sally of Missouri. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sally-of-missouri (Original work published 1903)
Young, Rose E. Sally of Missouri. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/sally-of-missouri.
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What is Sally of Missouri about?
It follows Bruce Steering, a young New Yorker who comes to southwest Missouri to start a zinc mine on hills he will inherit. He meets a promoter, a prospector, a tramp boy, and the promoter's daughter Sally.
Who is Sally in Sally of Missouri?
Sally, whose full name is Salome, is the daughter of Crittenton Madeira, the banker of Canaan. She is tall, athletic, educated in the East, and devoted to her father, her garden, and her home county.
Is Sally of Missouri a true story?
No, it is a novel. It is set in 1899 and 1900 against the real zinc and lead boom around Joplin, but its characters and the town of Canaan are invented.
The author
Rose E. Young
American writer and suffragist
Rose E. Young was Rose Emmet Young (1869–1941), an American writer and editor. She was born in Missouri and later lived in New York City. Her novel Sally of Missouri was published in 1903. She also wrote short stories and worked on publications connected with the women’s suffrage movement.
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