James went to the goldfields in Colorado and Montana and carried on correspondence with his wife, Pamelia in Little Falls, Minnesota.

Moving personal account of frontier women left behind in Minnesota when their husbands went west to prospect for gold in Colorado and Montana in the mid-1800s.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to for

Looks at the lives of the homebound wives of Western pioneers

Two historians, Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, present the American West as both frontier and region, real and imagined, old and new, and they show how