Escape to Beulah

Susanne Day is a retired education specialist with physically disabled,
blind, and speech-impaired children.

This is a book about women—women of the pre-Civil War American South.
Cassidy, the one man portrayed in depth, is a hateful brute; he
humiliates and brutalizes the women in the story, taking what he wants
regardless of the consequences, and taking terrible vengeance when
thwarted. The women who escape his clutches make a long, perilous
journey during which they are aided by Native Americans and by their own
faith in the Great Mother. Their bravery and tenacity and their love for
one another strengthens them to establish their new home together in the
Northwest, but not before they battle illness, accidents, death, and
another meeting with the dreadful Cassidy.

This story has a brooding mystical tone. Parallels between these women
and those of today can be easily drawn. This is a chronicle of and for
liberated women—a testament to our struggling sisters as they fight to
lead lives independent of men. Male readers may therefore not appreciate
the book.