Kate Bates is one of a big family whose father gives each son a farm and each daughter nothing but hard work. Determined to have land and a life of her own, she slips away from church to make her plans, takes up teaching, and faces marriage and motherhood on her way to the independence she wants.
Stratton-Porter’s most outspoken novel about women’s lot on the farm, set in the Indiana country she loved. Download the free EPUB.