Westward Hearts: The Amelia Dale Archer Story

"When pioneering female doctor Amelia Dale Archer is passed over for the position of chief of staff at Philadelphia Hospital, she knows she will never get what is rightly hers because of the prejudiced attitude toward women in medicine. Adee, as her friends know her, realizes that the only place where she can practice medicine is where doctors are in desperately short supply -the West Coast. So, she joins a wagon train heading to Los Angeles.

In the Conestoga wagon, sixty-one-year-old Adee and her four granddaughters struggle to survive the rough three-thousand-mile crossing trying their collective knowledge, skill, wit, and love - the kind of severe test that only a journey such as this can bring. "