Mary Dove

"Reared in isolation by her father and now completely alone on the prairie, Mary Dove fears one thing. When the inevitable stranger rides in off the Plains, she does what she always promised - she shoots. As remorse and compassion overcome fear, Mary Dove tends to the wounded stranger. What follows is their tentative discovery of each other and a story groundbreaking in its day. The mother Mary never knew was African-American. And so completely has she been sheltered that she has no inkling of what society would so cruelly teach her. Archetypal in their blamelessness and suffering, and yet so credibly West Texan, Mary Dove and her cowboy, Red, are no less than mastery of character and place."--BOOK JACKET.Rushing, Jane G. is the author of 'Mary Dove' with ISBN 9780385083027 and ISBN 0385083025.