Distant Dreams - Ribbons of Steel 1
Carolina Adams is a most unusual woman for 1830's America. She's about a century too early for her interests in masculine things such as science and learning and railroads. Her very proper southern mother wants only the best for her, a proper marriage to a financially stable man, love be hanged. Her father's much more understanding and doting. He begins to seek a tutor willing to impart knowledge upon his smart daughter.
James Baldwin's just not cut ...