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A hundred-odd men, women, and children gathered at the rendezvous a few miles outside of Independence. They were solid, established folk, most of them, and they were leaving behind prosperous farms and businesses because they shared a dream about the rich lands in the West, where a man, his wife, and their young ones might make a better life and a new world more desirable than any Americans before them had ever known.

Author: A. B. Guthrie ISBN-13: 9780395656624 ISBN-10: 0395656621 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Mariner Books Publication Date: 1993 Pages: 340 Format: Paperback