Joe reluctantly pays the fee Asa is requesting to secure him a bride, and then waits patiently for months for his return.Īnna Ivey lost her entire family to the Civil War, and has been scraping by on her own ever since. Joe is in quite a predicament until prominent townsman Asa Mercer, offers to travel to the East coast and bring back a shipload of eligible brides for the men of the Territory. The records of the death of Joe's wife were destroyed in a fire, and single women are almost non-existent in Washington. Now Joe's claim is being challenged by a man who wants to take half of the successful business that Joe has worked so long and hard to build, and if he cannot produce either proof that he was married at the time the claim was made or a new wife, he stands to loose his livelihood. After creating the beginnings of a logging company, Joe sent for his wife, but he received word that she had passed away before she was able to come.

The government was offering grants of 640 acres of free timberland to any married man, and once Joe set foot in the Territory, he knew he wanted to stay.

Joe Denton ventured west to the Washington Territory more than a decade ago leaving behind his home state of Maine and a new bride.

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