A Perfect Gamble

As a young wife, Tess follows her cavalryman husband, Tom Armstrong, to the wilds of the late nineteenth-century Dakota Territory. The vastness and beauty of the northern plains engage their souls, inspiring them to acquire land and build a farm where they live and raise their young family in anticipation of Tom's discharge from service. When Tom is abruptly killed in the Indian Wars, Tess is left alone to raise her two children while she struggles to maintain her farm on the isolated plain...