Josephine's Journey

The year is 1851, and a young man travels the frontier trails searching for his family. Look closely, however, and you might realize this young man is actually twenty-one-year-old Josephine "Jo" Brown, daughter of a Pennsylvanian minister.

Jo longs to be a minister like her father, but by the societal rules of the day, she's "just a woman." Even so, when her family disappears on the Western frontier, Jo sets out to find them.

Dressing as a man offers Jo safe passage, and her bearing and atti...