title: A Perfect Life
author: Milstead, Doreen
description: Jousting In The New Mexican Desert - A woman’s father sends her off via a matchmaker to a man with a castle in New Mexico.
  From Mother Russia To The Old West, is about a woman traveling across country from Moscow, to meet a rancher and become his bride.
  Forging A Family – The Fat Man & The Thin Woman - A woman stricken with TB, or consumption, decides the only way to have a chance of getting better is to move to a state with a dry climate, and then marry a man.
  Forming A New Family - A young woman finds far more than she ever expected along the Oregon Trail.