When blind and widowed Suzanne Cullver reaches California with a group of women who have survived tragedy on the Oregon Trail, she sets her mind on doing for herself all that must be done.

Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rockies and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own is the fictionalized adventure account of a real woman's fight to settle in a rugged land, protect and raise her s...