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

"In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that...

Tells the story of Asiam, a white child abandoned on the Oregon trail who is rescued and raised by Indians, only to be thrust back into the world of the white man where she tries to make a new life.

"This book, written by the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House books, is a thoroughly researched biography of not only Laura Ingalls Wilder, but of her daughter, Rose. Using unpublished manuscripts, letters, financial records, and more, Fraser gives fresh insight into the life of a woman beloved to many. Intensively researched, this is definitely a fascinating read, and one that I plan on reading again -- maybe the next time...

"When Charlie Mae meets Spencer, a boy her age, and his grandmother, she is astonished at their kindness. She should have guessed they were Mormons. Pa had been lying all that time when he had said that Mormons were wicked. Pa was the wicked one, he and her brothers burned houses and shot people. She didn't want to live with thieves and liars and cook their meals anymore. She would leave this place someday and find a better life, no matter what the...

Profiles the experiences of twelve women who helped to shape the western territories including Alamo survivor, Juana Navarro Alsbury, Cathy Williams who disguised herself as a man and served with the Thirty-eighth Infantry of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Cummings, New Mexico, and others.

"Martha Jane Cannary ran through names like whiskey, but one moniker stuck-Calamity Jane. Stranded in a Virginia City mining camp, this orphan blasted through the 1860s West, determined to be noticed and tell her own story. The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane shatters the veneer of legends to reveal her tenacious heart. Rowdy and seemingly hell-bent on her own destruction, this devoted friend, jilted lover, sometime wife, and heartbroken mother...