"In 1860s Idaho Territory, Kylie Wilde is disguised as a man, homesteading for profit so she can live comfortably back East. But love or danger could change her mind"-- Provided by publisher.

Abandoned by her husband, a woman must try to make a living from the family mine so that she can remain in her home.

Forced to flee Scotland at the age of fourteen, Falon Macvail travels with her family to the wilderness of Texas and tries to carve out a new life in the wild frontier.

Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.