Westering Women Author:Heleb Markley Miller What does it take to be a pioneer? Sue Shelby left a Kentucky plantation to marry trader Sam Magoffin and lived as a wandering princess on the Santa Fe Trail...Eliza Snow fled with five thousand follow Mormons to the Great Salt Lake in Utah, where she married Brigham Young and helped to build the dream city of Zion...calculating Eilley Orrum lef... more »t Scotland at fourteen, came to America, married a rich Mormon farmer, left him when he took three other young wives, and finally struck it rich when her third husband became a partner in the Company Lode...little Lalu Nathoy, a Chinese slave girl, made a garden spot in the wilderness of Crooked Creek...Esther Morris won a hard-fought suffrage when the first woman cast her ballot in Wyoming in 1870...In dramatic and individualized biographies, Helen Markley Miller gives a panoramic view of the pionner movement and brings to life the spiritual and physical courage of fourteen very different women who helped to build the West.« less