By the age of 12, Charlotte Parkhurst knows the world of the 1860s holds more opportunities for boys than girls. So she cuts off her hair, dons boy's clothing and begins a new life that gives her many privileges, including the right to vote. Finalist for... [More...]

The complex bond and unspoken resentments between sisters . . . the aching search for home and connection and community . . . the ever-changing landscape of family and those who define it . . . Sands Hall weaves these powerful elements into a novel ripe... [More...]

The daughter of Oklahoma sodbusters, a student of Edward Everett Dale, and a protegee of Frederick Jackson Turner, Angie Debo was an unlikely forerunner of the New Western History. Breaking with the followers of Turner, Debo viewed the westward movement of... [More...]

From California to the Klondike, prospector Holly Skinner follows a trail of gold across the nineteenth -century American West. Living in a ghost town on Wyoming's South Pass, she steps back into a world where gold ruled the passions of those who pursued it... [More...]

For the first 12 years of her life, Esperanza Ortega is pampered by servants and sheltered by her doting parents on their ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico. But a sudden tragedy shatters that world of wealth and privilege. Homeless and destitute, she and her... [More...]

Rich in details of quilting, Civil War-era America, and the hardships and rewards of a woman's life in the 19th century, "Alice's Tulips" is by the bestselling author of "The Persian Pickle Club".

A college professor, and friend to Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden, disappears while searching for the grave of Sacajawea on a reservation. Vicky discovers her friend was linked to another historian who disappeared 20 years before—also tied to Lewis and... [More...]

Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return! When a sacred tribal artifact disappears from a museum, it's more than Arapaho history that is lost—it's an Arapaho student's life. "A joy to read."—"Booklist."

Every day, Reba Jo prowls the dusty prairie, roping critters and twanging her guitar. When the spunky cowgirl finds herself in a mess of trouble, only a pesky horned toad can save her hide. But first she has to grant the little varmint three unpleasant... [More...]

From a renowned horsewoman and gifted storyteller comes this groundbreaking new book that explores a powerful relationship like no other: the magical kinship between women and horses.

Drawing from myth and literature, the author’s own... [More...]