This Pulitzer-winning book is one of my favorites. It captures the great western landscape and the relationships of men and women to each other and to that landscape. I guess there was some controversy about this book as it is written from a woman's perspective and someone suggested that Wallace Stegner used the diaries on which he based the book without proper permisson. But I think that could make for additional discussion in a book group, for example. I read this book probably 25 years ago. It has remained with me and I will read it again one day. When I finished it I said to myself, "I want to write like that one day." A finely crafted, deeply felt story. Jane Kirkpatrick www.jkbooks.com