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In 19th Century Paris, two society women--one American, the other French--decide to liberate themselves. They buy land in Kansas, build a house each and proceed to farm, occasionally joined by friends from Europe. The experiment fails, the women defeated by prairie hardship and the hostility of neighbors.

Using fictional first- and third-person narrative, profiles five women, Clara Brown, Sara Winnemucca, Nellie Cashman, Isabella Bird, and Margaret "Molly" Brown, who braved the western frontier. Sidebars link the narrative to documented historical events.

This book provides detailed profiles of ten amazing women of the Old West who left their mark on history. They dared to step outside the traditional roles of wife and mother and left society's conventions behind them. They engaged in a wide range of interests and professions, and their stories will inspire and entertain. All became well known on a national level during their lifetimes, but most have fallen into obscurity over the years.

It’s 1816. Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson’s campaigns who’s thirsting for action, leads his two sons and a band of backwoodsmen to Spanish-held Texas on a campaign to hunt wild horses. Their plan is to sell the mustangs back in Tennessee, but tragedy strikes when a bloody skirmish leaves Mordecai dead, and brothers Michael and Andrew are forced to fend for themselves. Sons of Texas and The Raiders: Sons of Texas follow the lives...