Sarah & Her Cowboy in California - A mail order bride from England arrives at a small, remote cabin in the woods surrounding San Diego and waits for her fiancé to arrive, feeling lost and isolated standing there. He eventually shows up and they are married, but a far different life evolves down the road as she copes with loneliness, boredom, the animals in the woods, and the dangers of frontier life. Reading Charles Dickens Along The Oregon Trail is about a woman who suddenly decides to join a wagon train headed west, but makes sure she doesn¿t leave some of her precious books behind.