A young bride is jolted down a stony track into Cotton Wood Creek, to the Kansas settlement where her husband has staked their future on communal living. The colony’s earnest idealists, among them Sister Mary Winkle and the formidable Madame Morozoff-Smith, put non-resistance and practical communism to the test against corn planting, poverty and a prairie fire.
A shrewd, humane novel of a nineteenth-century utopian experiment, by a writer who grew up on the Kansas frontier. Download the free EPUB.