Before that scorching summer day in 1875 ended, the richest man in Abilene would watch his silent daughter run into…
Before the sun cleared the ridge above Larks Hollow, Rosalyn Ferris was already standing in her ditch, ankle deep in…
Margaret Ellis pressed both hands flat against the flour-dusted table and stared at the 36 golden cornbread loaves cooling in…
The trunk hit the mud outside the bunkhouse door and every hand on that mountain ranch stopped what he was…
The wind through the jagged teeth of the bitterroot didn’t howl, it screamed. Beneath it, a different sound caught Hayes’…
The wagon wheels stopped to the edge of the ford and nobody moved to help her down. The current ran…
When Mara Ellison paid $600 for 51 goats too thin to stand straight, the town of Dry Creek laughed out…
Wade Coleman had not spoken a kind word to any woman in 7 years, and the whole of Millbrook County,…
The dust of the wagon road still clung to Eleanor Prescott’s traveling dress when she stepped down in front of…
The Arizona territory, 1886, was a land where beauty and hardship existed side by side. Endless stretches of golden desert…