MissyWhen Dol McQueen is given some valuable stolen goods to stash, the nineteen year old prostitute and opium user grabs the chance to start a new life and takes off with the loot and all hell in pursuit. Her flight through the western wilderness of 1860s America is beset by mule thieves, salt flats, halfsavage kids, and her own addiction. But she is driven forward on this mad odyssey by a desperate need to save her mother from self destruction. A very