title: Soft to the Touch
author: Milstead, Doreen
description: Across Rough Seas To Her California Cowboy - A pregnant and widowed English woman travels across rough seas, trying to reach her promised mail order husband in California. She runs out of funds in St. Louis and it’s only through the kindness of strangers that she is saved. On the other hand, her cowboy has many trials of his own and it’s only through the kindness of strangers also, and one in particular, that there is a chance of them ever meeting up.
  Under Primitive Conditions - Alone, a woman travels across the prairies to meet her cowboy fiancé in Nevada, but is unable to find him at first in the primitive tent town where he works. They get together and he and a drunken man who was on the floor of his shop travel to the man’s brother first to drop him off, then to the tiny cabin where they are to live. She’s a self-sufficient woman though and after they get married, tries to make a go of it until some bad news makes her wonder if they will survive the winter.