In Virginia Mancie is forced to leave Joseph the man she wants to marry. Sheis placed onto the emigrant train headed for Plainview Texas. GrievingMancie sews a ... » 

In Virginia Mancie is forced to leave Joseph the man she wants to marry. Sheis placed onto the emigrant train headed for Plainview Texas. GrievingMancie sews a piece of Josephs shirt into her pillow. Then she meets thehandsome Abbe who helps her understand the new country. The family deals withrattlesnakes dust storms and a hailedout wheat crop Small Willa Ruth fallsfrom the windmill tower and is taken up dead. When they go back to VirginiaMancie becomes involved with Joseph. Her unwanted pregnancies are the mostdevastating. Hidden away in a cellar. Mancie seeks control and begins again byaccepting her gifts. «