As a wagon train traversing the Sierra Nevada Mountains is stalled by a heavy snowstorm, the party splits into three groups: each risk losing those they love and face learning that adversity can destroy or redefine.
Certain that her writings will be found only after her death, Carrie confronts the pain and disappointment of the pioneering life with startling honesty...
What Tabitha couldn't know was how this frightening cross country journey would impact how she understood her own life--and the greater part she had to play in history.
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation ...