The Ranch Girls at Home Again

"The Ranch Girls at Home Again" by Margaret Vandercook is a story about young women living on a Western ranch. The book focuses on Jacqueline "Jack" Ralston, a group of ranch girls, and their experiences dealing with ranch life, changing relationships, and family struggles. The story is about friendship, loyalty, and the conflict between old ways and new changes. The novel starts with Jack and her buddies watching a horse race on the prairie and shows how close they are as they wait for their friend Olive to arrive. The situation creates a feel for the adventures to come as the girls face tricky lives on the ranch and the social changes that could impact their way of life, like Olive's inheritance issues and problems at the Rainbow Mine.