Lisa Hendrickson, Author

Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West

Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press

“Women’s history buffs will find plenty of drama and adventure in this thoroughly researched account of how one family’s ‘spirit of resilience’ helped form the character of the American West.”

—Publishers Weekly

“[A] remarkable blend of history and biography. There’s a Ken Burns or Willa Cather–like feel of both intimacy and sweep to the storytelling, and a touch of the heroic. When I finished reading, I felt not only as though I knew these women (and was inspired by them) but that I had a deeper understanding of American history.”

—Susan Neville, author of Fabrication: Essays on Making Things

 “Only enormously gifted women could have won the contest between financial disaster and hard-earned success. This book is a wonderful read. You won’t be saddle sore, but you will be thrilled by the ride.”

—Pierce C. Mullen, professor emeritus of history, Montana State University