The Campbell family has watched their friends and neighbors move across the Straits of Mackinac to a new island home on Mackinac Island, but they choose to stay behind in hope that the American Revolution will soon end.
When her grandchildren arrive at her home, Grandmother Kinzie tells Eleanor and Juliette the story of their great-grandmother's capture by the Seneca Indians in 1779.
Nick, chasing through the woods with his older brother Chris, is transported back in time to the nineteenth century where he meets female fur trader Meggie La Framboise and her assistant LeClaire.
An eleven-year-old New York farm girl travels with her parents to the Michigan Territory in 1836 by way of the Erie Canal, encountering unknown dangers and incredible hardships.
