It isn’t easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it’s particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. with seven older brothers and a love of adventure May Amelia Jackson just can’t seem to abide her families, insistence that she behaved like a proper young lady not when there’s fishing to be done sheep to be herded and real life murderers to be captured. May is sure if she could manage better if only there were at least one other girl living along the banks of the nasal river, and now that Mama is going to have a baby, maybe there’s hope