Scarred by an attack that killed her father, Alice Chesterfield relocates to a Texas ranch to start over, confront the truth about her father's dealings, rediscover her faith, reconnect with her mother, and pursue a relationship with an unavailable man.

In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that’s locked at all times, to become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.

In 1875, Kathryn Walsh arrives in a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas where she relaunches her uncle’s newspaper, pitting herself against the town’s most powerful men until she finds an ally in the local saloon owner who believes in what she stands for.

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow a family as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains.

Half-Apache gunslinger Jake Redman meets his match in the lovely but stubborn Sarah Conway, who is determined to make her home in the frontier wilds of the Arizona Territory.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.