Woman Alone On The Oregon Trail: God Is My Only Companion, Against all advice, a newly-certified woman doctor from back east travels alone on the Oregon Trail, headed for California to help a man she met through correspondence and to assist him in nursing sick Native Americans through a virulent smallpox epidemic. Mary Finds Charles In The River, is a love story about faith and the human spirit. When a young woman sits reading her bible by a favorite spot on the riverbank, a wild-looking black stallion that plunges into the water surprises her, throwing off its rider. Ana & The Man With Far More Children Than Expected – When Ana signed up as a schoolteacher in California, she thought she was going to be working in a schoolhouse near Sacramento. A Family For Jacob — Jacob knew he was dying but wanted a family and son more than anything else in the world.