Draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah, whose efforts to survive in the Arizona Territory are challenged by drought before a stagecoach accident puts her in the path of three strangers.

Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge, left alone and pregnant on the frontier prairie when her husband is killed in a tragic accident, goes to live with widower Clark Davis who needs someone to care for his young daughter and together they form a family based on faith, respect, and finally love.

Jonathan Zane seeks revenge against the man who abducted his sweetheart and controls a gang of marauding outlaws and Indians.

Profiles ten African-American women pioneers in the Old West, all born before 1900.

"Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from "civilized" society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventures-May's brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke; her marriage to...

Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through...

Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Antonia deals with the life of Bohemian immigrant and native American settlers in the vast frontier farmlands of Nebraska. It is a work which is particularly noted for its lucid and moving depiction of the prairie and the lives of those who live close beside it.

During the fur-trapping era of the early 1800's, with two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads west. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader, and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart. History records that on the journey, Marie meets the famous Lewis and Clark interpreter,...