Four of Rushing's other books are set in west Texas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Against the Moon, Walnut Grove, Tamzen, and Mary Dove. Tamzen, a romantic novel, takes place in the 1890s. The historical basis for the novel is the dispute over Block 97 among homesteading farmers who built lean-tos and dug-outs on this land, cattle ranchers who wanted grazing land, and the railroad. This dispute is mentioned in Winds of Blame which is set in the same area some twenty years later. Against the Moon and Walnut Grove also have an historical basis and come from stories told about the early residents of Rushing's home. Mary Dove, a Love Story is about a young girl who must learn to survive alone on the prairie after her mother dies and her father fails to return from hunting wolves that were threatening their sheep...