01550cam a2200349 i 4500 485772613 TxAuBib 20210218120000.0 190715s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250239662 1250239664 (OCoLC)1097577948 TxAuBib rda Dallas, Sandra. Westering women : a novel / Sandra Dallas. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. 327 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographic references. It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts, or for the triumphs of finding strengths they did not know they possessed. 20210218. Women West (U.S.) Fiction. . Overland Trails History 19th century Fiction. . Overland journeys to the Pacific Fiction. . Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Wagon trains Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Historical fiction.