The year of 1873 has brought hardship and disappointments to Callie's family and friends at their ranching homestead in Montana Territory. Yet a hopeful wind is blowing. Callie feels it even as the snows descend with all their fury.

Promiseland: Callie McGregor is a young pioneer woman determined to survive the Indian massacres, prairie wildfires, droughts and blizzards of the Montana Territory and help settle the west. Her journals bring to life the men and women who endured these problems and more, transporting readers to a time long gone. A ragged old man leaves a Christmas gift Callie will never forget. A dying mother tries to drown her children rather than leave them as...