FYI: Selected as the March 1998 Good Housekeeping "Novel of the Month. First serial to Good Housekeeping author tour Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections. The result is a compelling portrait of an enduring love, the rough old West and a memorable pioneer. While this device may frustrate some readers at first, Taylor's deft progression produces the intended reward: she not only tells of her heroine's growth, but she shows it through Sarah's writing and insights. These is my words by Nancy Turner,, FLAME edition, It looks like youre offline. Fragmented and disjointed in its early chapters, with poor spelling and grammar, Sarah's journal gradually gains in clarity and eloquence as she matures.
The love between Jack and Sarah, which dominates the rest of the tale, has begun to blossom. By the time she's 21, Sarah has recorded her loveless marriage to a family friend, the establishment of a profitable ranch, the birth of her first child-and the death of her husband. It also attracts a handsome Army captain named Jack Elliot. Her skill with a rifle fends off a constant barrage of Indian attacks and outlaw assaults.
When she begins recording her life, Sarah Prine is an intelligent, headstrong 18-year-old capable of holding her own on her family's settlement near Tucson. Based on the real-life exploits of the author's great-grandmother, this fictionalized diary vividly details one woman's struggles with life and love in frontier Arizona at the end of the last century.
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