Takes a surprising look at Utah's path to statehood, from determined poineers seeking a haven to backroom lobbying and deal-making in the halls of Congress. Shot on location in four states and features more than 200 speaking roles.

No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysterious husband and her private journal, where she records the joys and frustrations not just of frontier life, but also of a new marriage to a handsome but distant

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Discover the stories of twelve women who "heard the call" to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades later. As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver that ever lived. As a Native American, Gertrude

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Janette Oke's beloved story of a young teacher moving west concludes with a poignant and touching tale. Canadian West book 4.

Draws on the true stories of the author's grandmother to continue the tale of turn-of-the-twentieth-century pioneer Sarah, whose efforts to survive in the Arizona Territory are challenged by drought before a stagecoach accident puts her in the path of three strangers.

Madison Bacon, a young wife in southern Wisconsin, finds her comfortable life uprooted when her husband decides to sell their homestead and head west, as she joins eleven other women on the journey to an uncertain destiny.

Returning home after a year spent teaching in the Canadian West, Beth embarks on a steamship tour along the East coast and struggles to choose between rejoining her beloved Jarrick and staying with her family.

Will the War's End Bring the Highwood Family Together Again? When a disastrous decision by the new wagon master forces Jesselynn Highwood and her companions to separate from the wagon train, she races back to Fort Laramie to find a guide to take them to Oregon. But the guide has a far different plan, and following her heart, Jesselyn agrees to join him, her rag-tag band in tow. The ensuing journey is fraught with hardship and danger. Is hope for the...