Maude March on the Run (Maude March #2)

Maude March on the Run! or Trouble Is Her Middle Name continues the adventures from The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis.
Maude and her sister Sallie are now settled in Independence, Missouri. Maude works at a restaurant and Sallie is working for her uncle and Marion in the Livery.

Things are going well until Maude gets arrested. That seems like the signal for them to move on - once they complete the jail break.

The three are once again rough-riders headed west. They are going to the Colorado Territory to help out a friend of uncle Arlin and his family.

Along the way there is more adventure, shooting, close calls, and a few Mad Maude impersonators.

Couloumbis, Audrey. (2007). Maude March on the Run. New York: Random House.

The Misadventures of Maude March (Maude March #1)

In The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis, Sallie and her sister Maude are orphaned for a second time.

They had been living with their Aunt Ruthie since their parents died of the fever. Now Aunt Ruthie has been killed and they have no other family that they know of.

At first they are taken in by the minister and his family. But soon they begin to feel like hired hands - without the pay. And when Maude is almost forced to married an old man, they decide it is time to make their way west. They may have an uncle in Independence, Missouri - three weeks ride west.

Disguised as boys they head out on the minister's mule and cart-horse. Sallie thinks she knows how to be a range rider from the dime-novels she has been reading. Maude thinks they will be okay as long as they get there before the snow.

Along the way they meet up with Joe Hardin, the notorious star in Sallie's books. Between his reputation and Maude's - who is now wanted as a horse-thief - the adventure begins. It become difficult to tell which version of the story is more exciting - the one that happens or what the newspapers report on Mad Maude March.

Couloumbis, Audrey. (2005). The Misadventures of Maude March. New York: Yearling.