title: Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
author: Marianne Monson
description: <b>Marianne Monson</b> is a writer and professor of English with a strong interest in the relationship between literature and history. After earning a bachelor's degree in English literature from Brigham Young University, she continued her studies at Vermont College of Fine Arts, earning an MFA in creative writing. Since then, she has worked as an editor and art director of children's books, authored several books for children and adults, and continues editing and writing for a variety of audiences. She currently teaches creative writing at Portland Community College and regularly speaks at writing conferences.<br /><br />
zlib_text: Praise for An Uncommon Woman
  “Intense, evocative, and laced with intricate historical details that bring the past to life, An Uncommon Woman will transport you to the
  picturesque and dangerous western Virginia mountains of 1770.”
  Interviews and Reviews
  “Frantz captures the challenges of life on the frontier in this skillful inspirational romance.”
  Publishers Weekly
  “Frantz shows why she is one of the elite authors of historical fiction during the pre–Revolutionary War time period!”
  Write-Read-Life
  “Laura Frantz writes in a way that intoxicates her readers and leaves them with a desire for more.”
  Urban Lit Magazine
  “In An Uncommon Woman, author Laura Frantz transports readers to a setting she has mastered, the eighteenth-century mountain
  frontier. Sensory-rich descriptions bring the landscape to life. Traverse perilous forest trails, shelter with raw relief in the rough but
  welcoming environs of a fort, experience the tension of an isolated homestead that might stand peaceful today but 