The Irish are rightly proud of their heritage and collected here are the true storiesùsome harrowing, some heartwarmingùof the vital role they played in the making of our great land. Delve into the lives of the Irish immigrants and their descendants who courageously faced a brutal, unknown frontier in the hopes of living out The American Dream.<BR><BR>Read about the gentlewomen who drove development by running, boarding houses and buying and selling land claims in Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada; and the "less" gentlewomen like Josephine "Chicago Joe" Airey and Maggie Hall (the "whore with a heart of gold" whose name is still commemorated yearly in a two-day festival in Murray, Idaho). Learn about the Breen and Murphy familiesùmembers of the Donner party who were forced to turn to cannibalism to survive the winterùand mountain men like Thomas Fitzpatrick, who discovered the South Pass through the Rockies.