With her parents both now dead, fifteen-year-old Corrie Belle Hollister must raise her four younger brothers and sisters on her own in a California mining camp

"The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years...

Describes the emigration of people from the East Coast of the United States and from foreign countries to California to pursue the dream of discovering gold.

Describes what it was like traveling on the Oregon Trail, including what travelers ate, wore, and saw along the route.