When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown, it's a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her station, May's only hope of freedom is a secret government program sending "civilized" women to become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. This is the story of May's breathtaking adventures caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives.

Orphaned as a teenager, Jim Burden comes to live with his stern grandparents on their isolated farm. His pain and loneliness ease when he meets the beautiful Antonia, the high spirited daugher of neighboring immigrant farmers. Antonia's lust for life in her new country endears the young woman to Jim, but not his grandparents, who want bigger and better things for their grandson.

Elizabeth's eastern upbringing in a well-to-do family has not prepared her for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. But she takes on her formidable task with love, humor, and determination not to become romantically involved with a frontiersman. When she meets Wynn, Beth discovers that he would ''never ask a woman he loved'' to share the perils in the life of a Royal Canadian Mountie! Can Beth change his mind? Will Wynn listen...? BRODART...

Charismatic twins Amanda and Marlan Laton, sent to live with their aunt on a sprawling 1870s Texas ranch, find themselves competing for the love of cowboy neighbor Chad Kinkaid.

His life turned upside down by the deaths of his children from smallpox and desertion of his Nez Percé wife, Hudson's Bay Company trader James MacLaren joins a group of settlers headed west to Oregon in 1847.

Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, Wild Life is the story-both real and imagined-of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens dime-store women's adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search. When she becomes lost in the dark and tangled woods, she finds herself face to face...

The harrowing story of the revolution is seen through the eyes of the Lewis brothers and their wives and kin: the battles of Gonzales, Bexar, Goliad, and the bloody siege of the Alamo, where the Lewises join forces with such Texas immortals as Juan Sequin, James Butler Bonham, William Barret Travis, James Bowie, and David Crockett.

In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest ... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It...

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A "homesman" must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county's men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy-ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable...