In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with homesteaders and rode to school on horseback, unaware they were considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals. Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Woodruff's granddaughter found their buoyant letters home and reconstructed the saga of two intrepid women and the "settling up" of the West. Book jacket.