Tells the stories of six women who traveled to Oregon Territory as missionary wives in the 1830s. One of the women, Narcissa Whitman, was killed in the Whitman Massacre of 1847. The others were Eliza Spalding, Mary Richardson Walker, Myra Fairbanks Eells, Sarah White Smith and Mary Dix Gray. Describes establishment of missions at Tshimakian and Waiilaptu.

Fresh out of guide school in Kamiah, Idaho, freelance writer and photographer Carolyn White entered what was then a man's world of hunting, fishing, mule-packing, and wilderness survival. Taking a job on a primitive, isolated guest ranch, she learned to drive a team of horses, sew on a treadle machine, cook on a wood stove, and lead mule strings through the mountains. She made do without hot running tap water, television, and electricity. During long,...

Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos...