Lucy
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Surrounded by war, can she safely reach her family in California?
The 1863, attack by Quantrill’s bushwhackers on Lawrence, Kansas, made life for Lucy Baxter and her Aunt Caroline insufferable. With her fiancé and uncle among the fallen, and dream of teaching school shattered, her aunt decides to go to California to join Lucy’s father.
Malachi Foster’s dreams of striking it rich in the gold and silver fields in the West left him disillusioned. He accepts a job driving oxen-pulled wagons. When asked to travel by stagecoach to Kansas to help drive a small freight train returning with goods found only in the East and help two women travel safety across the frontier, Malachi decides to go.