Educated, ambitious, and brilliant in a time not quite ready for her, Jessie elopes with the young explorer Charles Fremont, at the age of 17, defying the wishes of her father, the powerful Senator Thomas Hart Benton.

Jessie expected a life of boundless adventure. Instead, the two most important men in her life are about to alter the course of 19th century American history—but only with her help.

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"Lulls the reader into forgetting this is fiction." ~Publishers Weekly

REAL WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN WEST, in series order
Libbie
Sundance, Butch and Me
Cherokee Rose
Jessie