Nothing Daunted but nothing interesting either. It is a cool premise of two society women in the very early 1900's who graduate from college and then bored with their confined lives head off to Colorado to teach in a one room schoolhouse and---oh yes---to find husbands too. It's written by a New Yorker editor so the writing is clean and crisp with a full complement of appropriately placed commas, but not much feeling. The women aren't remarkable enough to be compelling as history so it's just a nice sweet story without the strength of other pioneer tales like the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It might have been better if it was dealt with as a story not history.
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