Charlotte Bridger Drummond believes she is a fully modern woman, embracing the scientific spirit that is sweeping the nation in the early 1900s, but when she gets lost while searching for a missing child, she is thrown into a mysterious world that not only tests her courage but challenges her entire concept of reality.
an authentic history of the heroism, adventures, privations, captivities, trials, and noble lives and deaths of the "Pioneer mothers of our American frontier"
Sixteen potential brides arrive in Plum Grove, Nebraska, where they risk everything to fulfill their dream of owning land and finding love, turning the townspeople upside down in the process.
Dorothea Granger is commissioned by her Uncle Jacob to stitch an unusual quilt; but when the man dies, Dorothea determines to continue his work helping runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad.
A series of linked poems presented as dramatic monologues that give voice to women and children living in and around the mythical frontier town of Cottonwood. Includes archival photographs and a map.
