Spur Award
1986 · Medicine Pipe Bearer (First Novel) · Winner
About This Book
They Reached for the Stars to Conquer a Green and Golden Land
Fragile, aristocratic Aura Lee wasn't raised to be a homesteader on America's wide prairies, but her heart filled with love for a husband who believed in the promise of this fertile land. Now under the wide blue Kansas sky, she would face nature's most grueling hardships and love's cruelest betrayals. For across the windswept plains, powerful railroad dynasties were coming, bringing with them rape, murder, and greed --and a passionate battle for the untamed acres Aura Lee dared to call home.
Fragile, aristocratic Aura Lee wasn't raised to be a homesteader on America's wide prairies, but her heart filled with love for a husband who believed in the promise of this fertile land. Now under the wide blue Kansas sky, she would face nature's most grueling hardships and love's cruelest betrayals. For across the windswept plains, powerful railroad dynasties were coming, bringing with them rape, murder, and greed --and a passionate battle for the untamed acres Aura Lee dared to call home.
