From the back of the book:
Western historian, Laurie Winn Carlson, analyzes the lives of the first six white women - missionary wives - to cross the Rocky Mountains. At a time when a woman's entire fortune and future was tied to the man she married, four of the six women married virtual strangers, on short notice, and with absolutely no financial security. Why did they take such a gamble?
Carlson's research gives a fresh and sometimes startling view of these pioneers of the womens' movement as she sheds light on the religious motivations, cultural expectations and desire for a better life that drove these brave women west.
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