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A biography of the author of The Little House on the Prairie series that comes to life only in the recounting of the stormy relationship between Wilder and her daughter. Those fictionalized accounts of Wilder's turn-of-the-century girlhood on the rural frontier are accurate both in spirit and largely in fact. The first part of this biography reruns those years in detail, but Miller (History/South Dakota State Univ.) also examines the controversy about...

During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true stories of ladies who labored as hard as men out in the mines. A wonderful collection of true Americana, this book includes archival photographs of lady...

Traces the history of women's experiences in the California gold rush. Includes letters, journals, and memoirs.

Each of these historical novellas is set on the open plains when saying "I do" also most often meant committing to a life of hard work against the backbreaking soil. But, love has the ability to shine over any circumstance and light the bride's eyes with sparkles of hope.

Liz has overcome the emptiness of her husband's death, the hardships of the trip west and even the robbery and murder of her beloved grandfather. Standing at the altar, she feels hope for the first time in many years.