Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

When her family moves from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, pregnant teen Amanda finds that the plains contain a horror all their own.

Arriving on the American prairie in the hope of making a new home, Nora, a little girl from Russia, struggles with loneliness until Papa brings her a dozen chicks and two geese who follow Nora everywhere she goes

"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--

Angeline Reddy turns to friends for help when her father, the best lawyer in their California gold mining town, disappears, but her efforts are complicated by her mother's sudden illness, her uncle's arrest for the murder of her father, the appearance of a mysterious ghost, and a dangerous gang of vigilantes.

Recounts the adventures of the seven Sager children, orphaned during their journey to Oregon where they were adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.

Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.