Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.
The author describes her purchase of six hundred wilderness acres in Wyoming and construction of a library-centric home where she contemplated her rich family history, including a river boat captain ancestor who met historical figures.
Thirteen-year-old Genevieve's summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.
Living with his family in the rugged, often dangerous, Wyoming mountains in the 1860s, twelve-year-old Adam finds his courage put to the test when he is left in charge of the household during his stepfather's absence.
Fourteen-year-old Belinda sets out with her family on a journey from Illinois to the Oregon Territory, but when tragedy befalls the family, Belinda finds herself living at a brothel in the Wyoming mountains, where she must rely on her faith in God to see her through the challenges she faces.
Photographer Edward Curtis's plans to document the Arapaho culture in 1907, complete with a staged battle, turned to tragedy when the tribal chief's daughter was found murdered along with two others and Curtis discovers that they may be connected to a century-old unsolved murder.