Patricia Clark Blake

Author Bio:

Patricia Blake is a native Arkansan and retired educator, a veteran of more than forty years in the Arkansas public schools. Since retirement, she has worked to write The Shiloh Saga, a story of frontier life in Arkansas prior to secession before the Civil War. With her educational background in English, psychology, and counseling, the author's tale mixes a fictional account of characters' lives with the history of a growing state feeling the growing pains of the mid nineteenth century in the South. Blake lives in northeast Arkansas near the Greensboro community, where she sets most of the Shiloh story.

The Dream of Shiloh

Laurel and Mac knew they could do the tangible parts--build a cabin, grow crops, and earn a livelihood. Yet could they forge a successful marriage based on friendship, mutual faith, and vows spoken when they'd know each other only four days? Neither was so foolish as to think challenges would not face…

In Search of Shiloh:A Journey Through Arkansas

In 1857, the new state of Arkansas is seven years younger than Laurel Campbell. Single at the ripe old age of twenty-eight, both Laurel and the people of Hawthorn consider her the local spinster. When her father announces he's arranged a marriage for her, Laurel's world transforms overnight. Suddenly,…