Description
What would drive a woman in 1828 to head west across the Great Plains into the Rocky Mountains risking death among hostile Native Americans brutish mountain men and wild animals? Why the same reason as a man of course--freedom.Like fur trappers of the early western frontier Kathleen is a misfit. Growing up in the Irish slums of Boston and watching her mother die giving birth to a dozen children Kathleen has decided to escape into a career as a school teacher free of men; but when she sets out along the Santa Fe Trail for distant Nuevo Mexico she finds that dry powder and steady aim are as important as reading writing and arithmetic.
