num_pages: 336
description: From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous wagon-trail westIf 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 the postings soliciting eligible women to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets she has nothing to lose.So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2000-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. And not all will make it.As Maggie gets to know the other women she soon discovers that shes not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.
language: English
title: Westering Women
publisher: St. Martin's Press