The Adventures of Elizabeth Fortune

In 1870, Elizabeth Fortune is more spunky than most young women, but those attributes are often a cover for the despair she feels at being without family. Her white mother died when she was five, and her black-Indian father is in the Southwest with the Ninth Cavalry. When Elizabeth's maternal grandfather disowns her, she is forced to quit her college studies. She heads West, certain that when she finds her father, her life will stop its rough tumble.

But her trip produces a variety of hardships. Adventures? Misadventures? How will she survive?