This story is about a young woman's search for love and all the disappointments that it possessed for her, all within an eight year period of time, both with and without the captainship of her husband. Janet believed in women's rights, even before anyone understood its concept. She lived in the time period of the old English common law, which permitted the Rule of Thumb, that allowed a man to beat his wife with a switch, no thicker than his own thumb. Naturally she didn't believe in any of this nonsense, so she put on her old buckskins and set out to find her own destiny.By dressing as a man...

Katherine Chase Sprague. In American political history there has never been a woman who had been more active in the formative years of this republic than Katherine Chase Sprague. Her family, her love of her father, and the political skills that her father had taught her indirectly affected everyone who ever came in contact with her. She didn't come from a rich family, but she rapidly acquired the finest tastes that her newly acquired husband could afford. Katherine ran the complete race; she went from being a millionaire to dying in complete poverty. The story of her life truly contains the...

Rose McDonald was a young Irish girl who had been imprisoned by the English Tribunal System and had been sent to the colonies to be sold as an indentured servant. She possessed only one dream and this is the dream that plagued mankind since the beginning of time, and it was her freedom. She contemplated various ways of escaping once she reached the new world, but in the end she married a complete stranger to gain what she perceived as her first step towards eventual freedom. In this new world of the English Colonies she experience many adventures, but they were brought on by the turmoil...