women pioneers

Ameican Authors Including: Willa Cather.

A woman's life on the Colorado frontier, told by Mattie McCauley, a homestead bride. She describes the hardships--weather, childbirth, Indians--how she saved Luke, her husband with some fast shooting and how she was betrayed by him when Luke's old flame, Persia, came to town. Yet she remains by his side for the sake of the family and the children.

Serious and dependable, Berta is very different from her pretty, outgoing sister, Glenna. This makes Berta sad and envious until she learns to accept and cherish her own uniqueness.

Chronicles the experiences Laura Ingalls Wilder had while living in Missouri from 1894 to 1957.

"Separates the myth from the truth in the life of Calamity Jane, including her early life, her many different occupations, her travels throughout the Wild West, and how she became a legendary figure"--Provided by publisher.

A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl.

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

When Lucinda Baker travels to Sycamore Canon in Arizona to be with her new husband, she finds herself lonelier than she thought was possible, and when she is raped by an Apache and becomes pregnant she begins to think she is in over her head.