Ranching is a man's story, but in So Far from Paradise Cassie Belden recalls the story from a woman's point of view—life on the plains of North Texas, the Comanche and Kiowa raids, the cattle drives, the building of an empire, and finally, the move to Fort Worth, where the city shaped her family's life even as the cattle barons shaped the city of cowboys and culture. A novel first serialized by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1986 to commemorate the Texas Sesquicentennial.