A father carries his fever-stricken daughter across a scorched Wyoming prairie until his strength nearly gives out, then knocks on a widow’s door—a woman with every reason to turn him away.
PART 1 The sun over Wyoming in August 1888 did not warm the land. It punished it. Garrick Hale had been walking since before dawn, and the man crossing that bleached, cracked prairie did not… A father carries his fever-stricken daughter across a scorched Wyoming prairie until his strength nearly gives out, then knocks on a widow’s door—a woman with every reason to turn him away.









