A New York Times Bestseller, A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice -- In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Nearly a hundred years later Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found their buoyant letters home and reconstructed the saga of two intrepid woman and the "settling up " of the West.

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