Christmas at Red Butte: A sweet short story by Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables (1909) Christmas at Red Butte by L M Montgomery tells a touching 1909 holiday story of family, hope and a surprise reunion on the snowy prairie.
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