Lynda
Carter shares star billing as Elizabeth Shields, a courageous
woman who must face the rugged challenges of frontier life alone
after the disappearance of her husband, William. Raised in a
wealthy and cultured Virginia home, Elizabeth is an educated woman
at a, time when education is thought to be important only for men.
Her husband is a successful merchant, and Elizabeth is content
with her quiet life of family, friends and books. But her
tranquility is shattered when William like countless other,
restless pioneers, becomes obsessed with the desire to forsake a
civilized life in Virginia for the wild, unexplored territory of
the Hudson River Valley. Elizabeth reluctantly agrees to accompany
him to this strange and difficult land where they open a busy
trading post and begin building a new life. |