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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas''s Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail
Exciting novel ... difficult to put down. Booklist
If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?
It''s February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting eligible women to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west.
None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn''t know they possessed. Maggie discovers she's not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when
