Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>2014 Readers Favorite- Gold Medal Prize -Winner Best Western Fiction <br>2013 International Book Award- first place -Winner Best Western Fiction??<br>2013 National Indie Excellence Award -first place-Best Western fiction <br>2013 Global Ebook Awards first place-Winner Best Historical Fiction<br>2012 USA Best Book Award- first place- Winner Best Western Fiction<br>First Place Goodreads Contest: "est Book to be made into a Film"<br>"Top 12 Best Western Books"--Goodreads Contest</b><br><br> The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman?? Charlotte "harley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man in the old west. As a young woman in Rhode Island?? she fell in love with  a runaway slave and had his child. The destruction of her family drove her west to California?? dressed as a man?? to track the killer.<br><br>Charley  became a renowned stagecoach driver for Wells Fargo. She killed a famous outlaw?? had a secret love affair?? and lived with a housekeeper who?? unaware of her true sex?? fell in love with her. Charley was the first known woman to vote in America in 1868 (as a man). Her grave lies in Watsonville?? California.</br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601823029uu