The Flume Tender's Daughter

Rife with poverty and depravation, the logging camp where sixteen-year-old Linnie Bede lives with her family breeds ignorance—and plenty of unwanted children. Families struggle to get by day-to-day, laboring away for the wealthy and powerful Strom family, who deeply oppose labor organizations.

When Linnie meets people from outside her world who tell her that life doesn’t have to be this way—that people are entitled to fair wages, good work conditions, and control over their own bodies and futures—she’s captivated and dedicates her life to helping people in her community improve their means, station, and futures.

Life is not kind, easy, or predictable in the early nineteenth century, however, and all manner of roadblocks surface to detour young Linnie from her work. She faces the death of loved ones, a forced and unhappy marriage, social scorn and threats, and even incarceration in her pursuit to make birth control available to women.

Through it all, Linnie perseveres to emerge as a strong-willed woman, proud to be a flume tender’s daughter and committed to her work within the logging communities of the Pacific Northwest.