The Sharpshooters of Simpering, North Dakota

Before the rise of the "Mighty Five" in The Simpering, North Dakota, Literary Society, these female geniuses were all over the world leading colorful and often dangerous lives. Follow their younger years, in which colorful historical characters appear in important ways - including Annie Oakley (who was an actual historical figure, and who really did shoot that well), Nellie Bly, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, and Theodore Roosevelt. The action gets all mixed up in the Spanish-American War, couortesty of a midwestern Chief, San Francisco high society, and a slow boat to China.