The Adventures of Elizabeth Fortune - Softcover

High adventure as Elizabeth Fortune, a woman with as much integrity as beauty, is disowned by her white grandfather. Doubly disguised as a boy and white she hires on as a teamster to hunt for her father, a Buffalo Soldier on the frontier...[This book] leaves us hoping for the further adventures of one of the most intriguing heroines this reader has met in years. --Jeanne Williams, past-president of Western Writers of America, winner of four WWA Spur Awards and the Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman

Readers looking for a hard-to-find good western yarn will discover it right here. This novel has it all, the lonesome western landscape, the good guys, bad guys, suspense, intrigue, brawls, gunfights, an ambush, a showdown, romance. There are cowboys and Indians, with some twists. The cowboy is part Indian, and part black, part white. And the cowboy is a girl. This is Nouveau Western, as the author calls it--a traditional western with contemporary overtones. The main strengths of this book are in its main character and in the stark and lonesome landscape of the Santa Fe Trail that she travels with a bunch of sweaty, raunchy, and sometimes companionable men. In The Adventures of Elizabeth Fortune, author K. Follis Cheatham has created a woman who has the unique breadth of wisdom born to her multicultural heritage and her experience as a woman in the then--separate worlds of women and men. Turn this woman loose on her trail journey, and what happens is at once a page-turner and a series of insights into the gender and cultural conditioning that yet remain..." --The Bloomsbury Review