A Woman of Marked Character - The Imagined Portrait of Sarah Ridge Paschal Pix 1812-1891, Book Two 1848-1891

Set in antebellum Galveston, Texas, and later across the bay on an isolated coastal cattle ranch, this sweeping biographical historical novel concludes Cherokee Sarah Ridge's emotional story of her love of family and perseverance through tragedies.

In Book Two 1848-1891 of this biographical fiction series, Sarah Ridge Paschal arrives in Galveston in 1848 with her husband and three children. There as a divorced, independent woman she builds a rewarding life while enduring the death of another child, hurricanes, and yellow fever epidemics. Marrying a man much her junior and bearing another son, Sarah Pix trades her city property for an isolated homeplace on 500 acres of prairie ranchland across Galveston Bay. As a determined pioneer, she encounters a bitter land encroachment, the privations of the Civil War, cattle rustling, and heartbreaking adversities that rip her soul.