Mollie's Journey Lee — Ann Turner

All Mollie McGuire has ever wanted is to have a home and family of her own to love and care for. After a serious accident, her father is not able to provide for his family so Mollie starts out from Memphis across the Arkansas wilderness to join some cousins and find work.After prospecting in Oklahoma Territory for years, Jack Evans is back in Montgomery County. He's ready to settle down in one place and raise a family. He buys the Davis homestead and starts to put down roots.Mollie's money runs out in Little Rock, but she finds work, witnesses a murder, and flees toward Hot Springs. She works at whatever work she finds, but through some unfortunate incidents finds herself penniless, trudging along the forest road with a baby goat and two carpetbags. She finds shelter in Jack's cabin, but new problems arise, and trouble follows her.The pair seem like a perfect match, but the road to love and happiness is rocky and dangerous. Even the trip to Mount Ida for a marriage license has its share of tribulations (or is that a skunk?)