The Lieutenant's Lady (1942) When Linnie Colsworth came from the East to visit relatives in Omaha, she was plunged into a wilder, more hazardous world than she had ever known. In the wake of the Civil War, land seekers were pouring into the West and displacing the Indian tribes. Although Omaha was beginning to put on social airs, Nebraska was still a raw territory. Not one to take shelter and spend her days sewing and serving tea, Linnie travels up the Missouri to deliver a "Dear John" letter to her cousin's fiancee, a handsome lieutenant, and in a wink becomes the wife of this near-stranger. They come to love and trust each other, and their survival on the frontier requires nothing less, and a good deal more, from them than that. This harrowing story is based on the diary of an actual army wife who recorded the daily weather -- both internal and external.