The Promiseland

One woman's stories of hope and endurance in post-Civil War Montana Territory. Beautifully designed with French flaps and deckled edges.<p> Callie McGregor is a young pioneer woman determined to survive the Indian massacresprairie wildfires droughts and blizzards of the Montana Territory and help settle the west. Her journals bring to life the men and women who endured these problems and moretransporting readers to a time long gone. A ragged old man leaves a Christmas gift Callie will never forget. A dying mother tries to drown her children rather than leave them as phans. These stories and more leap from the pages of Callie's journals finally teaching that it's not what who wins that race that really matters but how you run.