Beginning with the American pioneers' westward expansion and ending with humans exploring the moon, Stephen L. Wood's Pioneers with Eminence Optimization: 35 Stories with Impact offers stirring true stories of people who journeyed into the unknown, not knowing if they would or could ever see loved ones and familiar places again. Wood researched each story, and several draw from diaries written by people involved in the actual events. Of note, Pioneers with Eminence Optimization focuses on the roll women played in the westward expansion of the United States, leaving the reader saying, "I didn't know that!" or "Wow, really?" In these stories, we find one hundred years of pioneers who made an impact on this great nation, and still do today.