Mildred Cable: Through the Jade Gate

"Standing atop a mound of rocks, Mildred wrapped her blue padded jacket tightly around her and squinted against the sand-laden wind. To her right the Great Wall wound east for fourteen hundred miles until it reached the Yellow Sea. Before her lay the rocks and sand of the vast Gobi Desert. She would enter this feared place in peace -- God was here too."

Missionary trio Mildred Cable (1878–1952) and Evangeline and Francesca French were the first Englishwomen to cross the infamous Gobi Desert,...