Barely nineteen and newly married to Josh, a master gunsmith, Carrie leaves her safe city home to follow her husband's great dream: to own land and create a farm in the untamed West. Carrie and Josh travel down the mighty Ohio on flatboat, across the...
In 1821, only the strong survived the frontier.... Though Nellie Cranford was young, hardly more than a girl herself, she was determined to forge her destiny with a new husband and his motherless children. The sacrifices would be many, whether it ...