Brave Hearted

The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there

''This book is a triumph'' AMANDA FOREMAN

''Absolutely compelling'' CHRISTINA LAMB

''A blazing view of the American story'' BETTANY HUGHES

''Gripping, eye-opening'' EMMA DONOGHUE

''Richly evocative... the survivors were heroines, all of them'' YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM

''Beautifully written'' CLOVER STROUD

Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers travelling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys; African American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers - all had to be brave-hearted women.