The note was due in 11 weeks and Araminta Sorrel had exactly one sheep, $110, and a stranger standing in…
The woman they sent to a ranch cookhouse as a punishment stood in the doorway with a dish towel in…
The letter was in her hand when he came through the barn door, and she did not have time to…
Blood stained the rough floorboards of the Oak Haven Clinic, but it wasn’t the grizzly bear wounds that brought the…
Sweat dripped beneath the unforgiving western sun as the auctioneers gavel hung suspended in dead silence. A hundred pairs of…
Seven men stared at her torn dress and saw a burden. Seven men measured her like an old plow horse…
The telegram promised a home, a husband, and a future. Instead, Ruth stood in the freezing mud of a Wyoming…
Every morning for 6 weeks, Eleanor Hale opened her cabin door and found food waiting in the snow. She never…
Silus Crowe leaned over the auction railing close enough that Lena could smell the tobacco on his jacket and said…
October, 1957. Route 66, the bus depot on the east edge of Gallup, New Mexico. A blind man sits on…