"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...

Widely recognized as Willa Cather's finest book and one of the outstanding novels of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in Nebraska.

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by

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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.

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...

Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person.

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...

Set in Wyoming Territory, this is the story of Kinyan Holloway, who has no idea how she's going to survive when her husband is killed in a range accident and who is torn between the Sioux world where she was raised and her responsibilities to her children and their heritage.

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...

Born and raised in frontier Texas, beautiful Tess Stuart needed a hired gun to avenge her uncle's murder. But the only one willing to help was the infuriating, irresistible Lieutenant Jamie Slater -- the man whose passion set her aflame. Jamie knew no woman could match Tess's lust for life. But one man could -- and he would have her, even if he had to fight his way through a hundred crooked lawmen and Indian massacres. For Tess had a spirit that...

In this mesmerizing sequel to "These Is My Words" Sarah Agnes Prine learns her brother and his family are trapped in the Great San Francisco Earthquake. With a heartwarming blend of stubbornness and compassion, Sarah Agnes Prine will once again capture the hearts of readers.