Jane Candia Coleman

Joanna O'Keefe sells off the family holdings in Texas to go find her husband in New Mexico Territory. He went with John McLeod dreaming of a cattle empire with millions of acres for the taking.

" Horace and Augusta Tabor left Maine to seek their fortune and ended up in the mining camps of Colorado. While Horace panned for gold, Augusta prepared meals for miners. Eventually, she opened a store and became postmistress while raising their young son. One day they were happily at work--Augusta in the store and Horace as mayor of Leadville with his finger in every political pie--and the next day Horace struck it rich. From then on, everything...