Before Farika Zingarella and her Mighty Five established their international empire on the American prairie, they all led corforful and dangerous lives that took them all over the world. The most notorious for getting into trouble, Zingarella's daughter, gets all mixed in with Theodore Roosevelt's Spanish-American War, via Annie Oakley (yes, an actual historical figure - and yes, she really did shoot that well), Nellie Bly (first woman to circumnavigate the globe alone), master wit, Dorothy Parker, of the Algonquin Round Table, a Midwestern Chief, San Francisco high society, and a slowboat to China.