Joanne Wilke's work has appeared in the Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West and Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West anthologies. She has also written pieces for the Montana Quarterly, the Pacific Review, and the Christian Science Monitor.

"Entertaining and inspiring."—Booklist "[C]ompellingly conveys the passion and determination that led these brave young travelers to 'see some things' together . . . . Throughout the book, Wilke expertly interweaves her own story of personal discovery and connection to the West . . . . The result is a seamless fusion of memoir and adventure, insight and history."—Outside Bozeman "Wilke's well written and hard-to-put-down book can be described as part memoir and part oral/written history."—SIROW Newsletter (Southwest Institute for Research on Women)"Through interviews, journals, letters and pictures, Wilke reclaims a narrative that had been lost even to its participants, whose memories had slipped and faded in the sixty years since their trip. She set out to capture the expedition of a lifetime and instead captured the journey of several lifetimes, including her own. The women all found the trip to be well worth taking, and Wilke's readers will feel the same."—Amy Brumfield, Western American Literature

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. A Beginning2. From Iowa3. We on the Pigmy Road4. Echoes on My Ribs5. From the Cliffs 6. Mountain Vistas7. Galloping Bare-Breasted8. A Heap of Living

Joanne Wilke's work has appeared in the Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West and Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West anthologies. She has also written pieces for the Montana Quarterly, the Pacific Review, and the Christian Science Monitor.

"Entertaining and inspiring."—Booklist "[C]ompellingly conveys the passion and determination that led these brave young travelers to 'see some things' together . . . . Throughout the book, Wilke expertly interweaves her own story of personal discovery and connection to the West . . . . The result is a seamless fusion of memoir and adventure, insight and history."—Outside Bozeman "Wilke's well written and hard-to-put-down book can be described as part memoir and part oral/written history."—SIROW Newsletter (Southwest Institute for Research on Women)"Through interviews, journals, letters and pictures, Wilke reclaims a narrative that had been lost even to its participants, whose memories had slipped and faded in the sixty years since their trip. She set out to capture the expedition of a lifetime and instead captured the journey of several lifetimes, including her own. The women all found the trip to be well worth taking, and Wilke's readers will feel the same."—Amy Brumfield, Western American Literature

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. A Beginning2. From Iowa3. We on the Pigmy Road4. Echoes on My Ribs5. From the Cliffs 6. Mountain Vistas7. Galloping Bare-Breasted8. A Heap of Living