Join Maggie Douglas as she goes from Boston to Cheyenne to Deadwood and, finally, to the Standing Rock Reservation hoping to "make a difference" in the lives of the people around her. Whether it's stomping for women's rights, writing for the Cheyenne Sun, riding the Cheyenne-Deadwood Stage to a burned out Deadwood and facing Indians, harsh weather, and desperate men to get there, or helping the Lakota at the Standing Rock Reservation, Maggie has one goal--to make a difference.

She makes that difference, and gets into all kinds of trouble doing it.

Read the complete first chapter here.