Bøker av Jane Gilmore Rushing

Reared in isolation by her father on the Western prairie, Mary Dove has been taught to fear only one thing. One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would she shoots. Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear.

A story of John Carlile's passage into manhood when the twentieth century was young. It is connected to the growth of the town of Walnut Grove and to the good and evil that are always present.