Trail to Glory

THE WOMEN WHO WON THE WEST

1858: MARY -- The gentle eastern schoolteacher ost her heart to a handsome traper, overcomign the hardships of frontier life in the Wisconsin wilderness to establish a family dynasty.

1880: WILHELMINA -- Mary's flame-haired daughter, kidnapped as a child by Indians and renamed Indian Paintbrush, turned her back on her white heritage to marry Taihinca, the Menominee brave who taught her the meaning of unbridled passion.

1906: BEULAH -- A fiercely independent young beauty, daughter of Wilhelmina's elder sister, she defied family and convention to wed the man of her choice, journeying to Southern California to make a new life and found a dynasty of her own.