After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.
Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' pro-slavery beliefs.
Laura Ingalls travels with her family from the big woods of Wisconsin to the prairies of Kansas, where they build a house, meet neighboring Native Americans, and face the challenges of frontier life.
Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family.
Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died mysteriously twenty years before and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.
Convinced of his father's innocence in the killing of Jody Linder's father, Collin Crosby returns to Kansas with his ex-con father and provokes Jody to face the stunning mystery behind her tragic past.
Examines the crusade against America's liberal establishment in the last two decades, and analyzes why conservatives have voted against their own economic and political concerns, and discusses how people living in Kansas have pushed their own religious agenda without apology.
