She Left Biscuits on His Porch All Winter — He Left the Deed to Her Land in Spring

The Town Voted to Run the Irish Doctor Out by Sundown — She Voted to Let Him Stay Forever

The County Said a Woman Could Not Hold a Freight Contract — She Delivered Every Load on Time

She Wrote Him a Letter Every Week for Two Years — He Read Them All the Night He Came Home

The Foreman Said She Owed Him a Debt She Could Not Pay — The Trail Boss Said the Debt Was Settled

She Slept in the Church Pew Until the Deacon Locked the Doors — The Rancher Unlocked His

She Needed a Father's Name on the Birth Record — He Needed a Reason to Stop Drifting

She Was Living in the Root Cellar When He Found Her — He Said the House Had Empty Rooms

He Left Before Dawn So She Would Not Have to Watch Him Go — She Saddled Her Horse at First Light

Every Man in Town Said She Could Not Break Horses — She Broke Fourteen in a Week

He Told Her to Go Find Someone Who Deserved Her — She Said She Already Had

The Boy Told the Sheriff His Mother Needed Help — The Sheriff Came and Did Not Leave

They Said a Woman Could Not Run a Survey Crew — She Had Already Filed the Maps

She Had Been Walking for Three Days When He Found Her at the Well — He Said Supper Was Ready

He Sent Her Away to Protect Her — She Came Back Because He Was Wrong

The Girl Drew a Picture of a House With Three People in It — He Was the Third

She Was Sleeping in the Church Pew When He Found Her — He Said the Parsonage Had a Spare Room

They Said a Foreign Doctor Had No Place in Their Town — She Said He Had Saved Her Son

His Nephew Had Not Spoken a Word in Two Years — The Schoolteacher Had Him Reading Aloud by Friday

The Men Said a Woman Could Not Run a Cattle Auction — She Ran It Better Than Any of Them

She Married Him Because the Alternative Was the Poorhouse — He Married Her Because She Asked

She Showed Up Barefoot in December With a Letter That Was Not Hers — He Read It Anyway

They Called Him a Coward for Not Fighting in the War — She Called Him the Bravest Man She Knew

Her Daughter Would Not Let Go of the Stranger at the Well — She Said He Felt Like Home

She Mended His Fence Every Morning Before He Woke — He Never Knew Until the Neighbor Told Him

The Rancher Took One Look at Her Limp and Said No — The Preacher Said She Would Do Just Fine

The Banker Said Pay by Monday or Lose the House — The Blacksmith Said Not While I Am Standing Here

She Married Him to Save Her Reputation — He Married Her Because No One Else Would Have Him

The Sheriff Said the Drifter Was Not Welcome — She Said the Sheriff Could Mind His Own Business

She Collapsed at His Gate With a Fever and No Name — He Carried Her Inside Anyway

He Needed a Wife by Friday to Keep the Grant — She Needed a Roof by Friday to Survive

The Bank Said Sell or Lose It All — The Horseman Said 'She's Not Selling Anything'

She Was Hiding in His Hayloft When the Rain Started — He Said 'Come Inside Before You Drown'

He Sold Everything to Clear Her Father's Debt — She Rode Two Hundred Miles to Find Him

She Married Him to Keep Her Sisters Out of the Orphanage — He Married Her to Keep His Word

She Was Sleeping in the Church When He Found Her — He Said 'There's a Bed at My Place'

They Said She Couldn't Run the Ferry Alone — She Ran It Better Than the Man Who Quit

The Groom Was Called to Missouri the Day His Bride Arrived — His Sister Kept Her Until Christmas

A Cheyenne Widow Found the Veteran Half-Dead at Her Spring — She Nursed Him and Married Him

He Sent Her Back for Having "No Family" — The Blacksmith Wed the Orphan Bride by Sundown

The Widower's Five-Year-Old Walked Two Miles to See Her Chickens — She Sent Him Home With Six Eggs

His Father's Deed Required a Wife's Name — He Asked the Neighbor Widow to Marry Him for One Year

The Widow Freed His Prize Mare From Her Barbed Wire — The Rancher Came Back With a Ring

The Groom Turned Her Away for Her "Grey Hair" — The Silver-Haired Rancher Kissed Her Hand Instead

A Kaw Widow's Wagon Broke on the Kansas Trail — The Rancher Drove Her Home and Kept Her Safe

The Town Ran Her Dressmaker's Shop Out — She Walked to the Nearest Ranch and Was Kept

The Rancher Was Drunk and Broken When His Mail-Order Bride Arrived — She Ran the Ranch and Saved Him

She Thought Him Killed in Sixty-Six — A Veteran Told Her the Truth at Fifty

His Orphaned Niece Wouldn't Eat Until the Stagecoach Widow Came — He Fetched Her by Sundown

Her Husband's Partner Shouted at the Widow — The Wells Fargo Man Asked to See the Papers

A Cheyenne Widow Rode Three Days South With Her Son — The Rancher Kept Them Until Her People Came

A Ragged Drifter Collapsed at Her Sheep-Ranch Fence — The Widow Kept Him Through the Winter

Her Stepdaughter Meant to Take the Homestead — She Married the Foreman by Friday and Kept It

She Gave Her Coat to a Shivering Stranger at the Fair — He Was the New Hospital's Chief Physician

The Rancher Turned Her Away for Having "Working Hands" — A Homesteader Kissed Her Palm and Wed Her

His Little Boy Was Fading and No Doctor Could Say Why — The New Midwife Read It in a Minute

The Mail-Order Bride Got Off at the Wrong Town — The Rancher Kept Her Anyway

The Rancher Sent the Widow Back for Bringing Her Girl — A Kinder Rancher Took Them Both

The Rancher Was Too Shy to Look at His Mail-Order Bride — His Aunt Made Them Sit at the Table Anyway

He Vanished the Night She Said Yes — Three Years Later She Found His Ring in a Pawnshop Window