Sunny Gale–A Novel
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Hannah Brandt’s family is preparing for the journey west to settle in frontier Nebraska when her father suddenly dies. Two months later her mother weds her father’s brother and Hannah is swept into an unexpected and hardscrabble life in the untamed Sand Hills.
Her charming but feckless uncle is soon disillusioned by the endless work and her proper mother is adrift in a territory that stubbornly eludes the trappings of civilization. A traumatic event soon transforms Hannah, who adopts the name Sunny Gale, determined she will embrace the freedoms opening for women who do not shirk at taking on men’s activities in their new land.
With a passion for horses, she becomes a skilled rider and through a series of alliances enters a horse race in the first Cheyenne Rodeo in 1897. In the years that follow, rodeo events open to both men and women. And so, begins Sunny Gale’s spectacular career as a rodeo cowgirl with its glories and heart-stopping risks.
Award winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes serves up a cast of believable characters, based on actual people and events that created the institution of commercial Rodeo. This is the in-depth story of a woman who refuses to confine herself to expectations for women in her time and always goes her own way, for better or for worse.
Description
It’s 1895 and fourteen year old Hannah Brandt struggles with the hard life on a Nebraska homestead. When her imagination is captured by a wild filly, she becomes obsessed with horses, which opens the door to her destiny. Just four years later she enters the first Cheyenne Frontier Day rodeo where she wins a relay race. Emboldened by her success, she adopts a new name, Sunny Gale, and pursues a rodeo career, much to the displeasure of her very proper mother and her young husband. Sunny defies convention with every move as the drive to compete takes over her life, leaving everything else behind, including husbands and children. Despite heartbreaks in and out of arena, she will not compromise on her quest for glory, nor will she bow to the expectations for a woman in her time.
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