Mollie (Second Edition): The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866

Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself – just turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for Nebraska Territory – of her reaction to the transplantation and to her new life which included rattlesnakes, blizzards, Indians, and the hardships of pioneer life.
 
Mollie describes her nearly three-year engagement to Byron Sanford, during…