"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne,...

A study of American women's writings about the West between 1830 and 1930 reviews the diaries of the overland trails; letters and journals of the wives of army officers during the Indian wars; professional travel writings, and late 19th- and early 20th-century accounts of missionaries and teachers on Indian reservations.

A young scout guides a wagon train of pioneers out west; Townsend Harris is appointed the first U.S. Consul-General to Japan in 1856; during the Civil War, a Union calvary brigade stages a daring raid behind enemy lines; a gold miner finds himself falling for his partner's fiancée; a police officer and his prisoner join together to defeat violent whiskey runners in pre-Civil War Texas; the story of the Allied invasion in Normandy during World War...

100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own...

Details the role played by African American soldiers, whom Native Americans called Buffalo Soldiers, in the wars of the nineteenth century.