"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...

"This book, written by the 26th Sheriff of El Paso County, John Wesley Anderson (1995-2003), is an historical account about Rankin Scott Kelly, who was the 1st Sheriff of El Paso County, Colorado Territory. Sheriff Kelly survived four shoot-outs with outlaw gangs and had his horse shot out from under him twice. Kelly, respected for his honesty and fearlessness, served from 1861-1867 when El Paso County was first established in the newly formed Colorado...

A collection of writings by the author's grandmother, Orpha Baldwin McNitt, and mother, Alice McNitt Montgomery.

When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.