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Crossing the Colorado Rockies, 1864
"As the Civil War rages, the Hitchcocks
head from Pennsylvania toward the Rocky Mountains, certain they'll find
gold! Thirteen-year-old Eda keeps a journal as they travel through
hostile country and take shelter in a broken-down cabin. The Hitchcock
girls are unaccustomed to roughing it. Everything seems strange and
frightening until Eda's 17-year-old sister Belle gets a job, and Eda
and her oldest sister, Lucy, meet an unusual family of actors. The
sisters are just settling in when Pa decides the family should return
home.
"But as they travel, they meet near-tragedy
and are forced to stay in rough-and-tumble Denver. Penniless and
freezing, they're herded into a tent city with nothing left but a few
clothes and tattered memories. Eda's certain they'll never escape.
That's when she meets an 'enemy' who teaches her the most important
lesson she'll ever learn...." -- Quoted from the book jacket of the
Minstrel® edition.
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