Recounts the growth of the frontier town of Nesbitt's Crossing from the time the first settlers, the Nesbitt family, came to that area of Wisconsin in 1848.
In the 1840's twelve-year-old Kristi travels from her family's frontier sod house on the Iowa prairie to an Indiana town to stay with relatives and get an education.
In nineteenth-century frontierTexas, a young boy learns a great deal about life on the range when he is at last allowed to accompany the ranch hands on the spring roundup.