Central Kansas Library System

It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...

This book brilliantly describes the hopes, fears, and accomplishments of those blacks who overcame official reluctance and racial prejudice, claimed the right to bear arms, and helped destroy forever human slavery in the United States.

Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role.

During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.

"A detailed analysis of the origins, events, and aftermath of the Minnesota-Dakota War of 1862"-- "Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson's account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War-and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity. "--