In the late nineteenth century, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia and a ten-year-old orphan boy arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime.
Lucy Fooshee has it made, being newly married to the second-richest farmer in Palmyra and having a big house, a large wardrobe, and an attractive appearance, but when handsome Native-American Billy Lee arrives in town she discovers she wants something else.
In the late nineteenth century, Antonia, a fourteen-year-old immigrant girl from Bohemia, and Jim Burden, a ten-year-old orphan boy, arrive in Black Hawk, Nebraska, and in teaching each other form a friendship that will last a lifetime.
