Have you ever wondered what life was like for a young girl growing up in the late 18th-century Northern Arizona Territory? A tomboy at that. Her dreams and aspirations of becoming a rancher, and competing in a man's world. Lizzie is just that, a tomboy who takes the reader on exciting escapades throughout Kansas, Northwestern New Mexico, and the Northern Arizona Territory and beyond. An encounter with a young "seer" at the Loretto school in Santa Fe tells Lizzie of her destiny. A dire warning from the young girl concerning a black horse and a man. Lizzie is surprised when the seer gives her a small black onyx horse, which haunts her for the rest of her life. Determined not to let the omen dominate her life, she pursues her dreams