Briefly explores what it was like to live and work on a ranch in the latter half of the nineteenth century, including first-hand accounts from people who owned, managed, or just lived on ranches.
When Kayla discovers a pile of bones near a Montana ranch, she finds herself caught up in the mystery of wild horse killers who also want her out of the way.
Eleven-year-old Molly's quiet life on the ranch with her widowered father is enlivened by the reappearance of a mysterious white stallion no one has ever been able to capture.
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their T?a Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
