Inspired by actual letters, breathes life into history with a richly imagined chronicle of twenty tumultuous years in the marriage of two American pioneers. Strong-willed southern belle mary bullitt abandons her life of ...Inspired by actual letters, breathes life into history with a richly imagined chronicle of twenty tumultuous years in the marriage of two American pioneers. Strong-willed southern belle mary bullitt abandons her life of luxury in louisville, kentucky, when she marries general Henry Atkinson and accompanies him to his outpost on the mississippi.