Sandra Dallas

1937. It’s been seven years since the dust storms started in Colorado. Folks can barely remember a time when the clouds were filled with rain instead of dirt, and when the fields were green instead of brown.

In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father. "...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on Westering Women After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an...

It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins 43 other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey....

It is 1863 and Emily Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that, come spring, their family will leave their farm, family and friends in Illinois and travel the Overland Trail to a new home in Colorado....

Sandra Dallas has created an unforgettable tale of a friendship between two women, one with surprising twists and turns, one that is ultimately a revelation of the finest parts of the human spirit....

Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas....

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12-years-old, considers herself an American. She doesn't speak Japanese and has never been to Japan. But after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, things change....

During World War II, a family finds life turned upside-down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes turn on the newcomers. Rennie has just turned thirteen and until this time, life has pretty much been...