Western Widow

Story The first Anna Voss knew of the theft was the morning her west fence had moved forty rods east in the night, and the second thing she knew was that

Story When Greta Solberg stepped down off the train at Miller’s Crossing to marry a man she had never met, the first thing the man noticed was that

Story In the starving end of that winter, when the settlement on Plum Creek was boiling the last of its seed corn into mush to keep the children quiet

Story The settlement at Two Forks said Elsa Rourke was digging her own grave a bucket at a time. All through the dry summer of 1880 she went down behind

Story When the Tully parents died within a week of each other and left three children and no kin, the settlement of Stone Lake held a kind of meeting about

Story The bank gave Ruth Mercer until the first of April to sign the paper, and the whole of Cedar County agreed she would have to, because a widow with

A frontier widow is mocked for moving her stove before winter, but the preparation her town laughs at may be the only reason she survives the coming storm.