Portrait of Jules Ami Sandoz by his daughter and of the upper Niobrara country in western Nebraska.

Susan LaFlesche Picotte was the first Native American doctor in the United States. She dedicated her life to working with Native American populations, battling epidemics from smallpox to tuberculosis that ravaged reservations during the final decades of the 19th century.

"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city. Debora survived. She identified her attacker...

Tells about the daily life and activities of a pioneer girl growing up on the prairies of Nebraska.