New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author set on the Western frontier in the 19th century - it "follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684868865.