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Already well-versed in the natural healing properties of herbs and oils, Jennie Pickett longs to become a doctor. But the Oregon frontier of the 18...

In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Neva...

Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being...

She came to the West for rest . . . what she found was a passion. Classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis can't seem to recapture th...

In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but...

Bound by duty--loosed by destiny Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even w...