Brave Hearted Av Katie Hickman

<p><b><h3>The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there</h3></b><br><br><b>''This book is a triumph'' </b>AMANDA FOREMAN<br><br><b>''Absolutely compelling'' </b>CHRISTINA LAMB<br><br><b>''A blazing view of the American story'' </b>BETTANY HUGHES<br><br><b>''Gripping, eye-opening'' </b>EMMA DONOGHUE<br><br><b>''Richly evocative... the survivors were heroines, all of them'' </b>YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM<br><br><b>''Beautifully written''</b> CLOVER STROUD<br><br>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.</p>