Chambers, Catherine E

Grandpa tells his family in 1827 about Daniel Boone's leadership in settling Kentucky.

Two children travel with their older brother across the country by wagon train from Virginia to the Oregon Territory.

Recounts the growth of the town of Nesbitt's Crossing from the time the first settlers, the Nesbitt family, came to that area of Wisconsin in 1848.

When Matt's father dies in 1881, he and his mother decide to stay on their Kansas homestead despite the perils of life on that frontier.