Publisher's Synopsis
A story of the transition from adolescence to adulthood of young people making their way across country in antebellum America. They start out soon after their wedding on a barge plying the Ohio River with aspirations of taking everything needed to set up a farm in the Willamette Valley-animals including horses, cows, dogs, chickens, ducks and geese, farm implements, food to last the full journey, a hired crewman who is an emancipated slave, and a spirit of adventure. The bride is sure they will have an unusual experience every day. She is right.
