01863cam a2200325 4500 417064849 TxAuBib 20200211120000.0 190823s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250239662 1250239664 TxAuBib Dallas, Sandra. Westering women : a novel / Sandra Dallas. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. ©2020. 327 pages ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-327). "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 2,000-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 she's 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20200211. Women West (U.S.) Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Overland journeys to the Pacific Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Wagon trains Fiction. Historical fiction. Western fiction.