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Ottenberg, a fledgling gold-mining town in Montana Territory in 1875, provides the setting for Patricia Beatty's spirited tale of a group of townswomen with a mission. At the suggestion of the new doctor, J. Marah, and inspired by thirteen-year-old Hope Foster, whose family owns the town general store, the "shebang," the women set out on a fund-raising drive. Their goal is $1250, the sum needed to buy a prefab schoolhouse and their children out of the improvised chicken-coop school. Aided in their efforts by an out-of-town lawyer and a news reporter, both female, the Ottenberg ladies storm all thirty-eight saloons soliciting donations. The consequences of their resolve, woven together with some surprising twists, make for exciting reading indeed.