A fascinating and rare look at women pioneers and their tales of courage and hardship in the untamed American West. These are the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the West and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey: the East Coast, Europe, and as far away as New Zealand. They endured unimaginable hardships just to get to their destination, and then the next phase of their story began. These are gripping miniature...

"James Pratt and his young bride press on toward the Bitterroot Valley, deep in Sioux territory, after their wagon master deserts them and seemingly disappeared. James' brother Mason enlists legendary Indian scout John Hawk to find them against deadly odds"--

Attempting to run a stagecoach station on the perilous Cherokee Trail, widow Mary Breydon vows to survive and forge a new life for her daughter and herself, and she is aided by a mysterious gunman.

It's 1886 and Major Jeremiah McHenry is retiring from the army to return to Medora in the Dakotah Territory. Slowed down by old war wounds, Jeremiah is determined to make a new, quieter life for himself... and find a wife. Feisty newcomer to Medora, Amethyst O'Shaunasy, is venturing out beyond her Pennsylvania home into the harsh Dakota badlands, trying to heal her broken heart after the death of her mother and to escape her abusive father. Can Jeremiah...

Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a failed romance, she triumphs with high spirits.

William has been missing for two days. And even though the rest of the wagon company has decided they must continue on to Zion, Constance brown refuses to go any farther until she finds her husband. All she can think about is the last time she saw him -- he lovingly touched her face and then sang their baby girl to sleep. Will that memory be all Constance has to hold on it? In a future time and place, Liz King is a teenage struggling with her identity...

When Ruby Torvald marries rancher Rand Harrison, her sister, Opal, takes to ranch life like a hummingbird to sugar water. She can outshoot, outride, and outwork any cowboy on the place. Ranching has clearly captured her heart. But when Opal makes a foolish though innocent decision, her dear friend Atticus is taken away from her, and she is consumed with feelings of guilt and self-recrimination. Will she ever see Atticus again? Jacob Chandler, hiding...

Ruby Torvald has turned Dove House, the scandalous inheritance her father left to her and her sister, into a respectable establishment. Her newest boarder is Pearl Hossfuss, a twenty-two-year-old schoolteacher from Chicago. Hiding scars within and without, Pearl has given up hope that any man would marry her. Her father has his own ideas, insisting she marry his clerk, a widower with five children. So Pearl flees to Dakotah Territory in response to...

The wife of an Indian trader tells of her life in the Four Corners country where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado touch.