About this story
Senator Dilworthy takes your name at prayer meeting with a soft hand, and when his telegrams price a Kansas vote the bill dies without one. You sit through Laura's trial, a courtroom dressed like an opera, until the foreman says Not Guilty twice. Thirty-six chapters carry the family from a Mississippi steamboat race to a farm kitchen where Sellers cries MILLIONS IN IT.
How it opens
Your father studied poor Tennessee acres as though tomorrow were buried beneath them.
Squire HawkinsMissouri has room for enterprise, and Sellers has found our opening.
Your mother heard the familiar name with less excitement than anyone at the table.
Nancy HawkinsBeriah's openings have closed on our savings more than once.
Squire HawkinsKeep those deeds, Washington; one day railroads will make them wealth.
Choose
Land is not a fortune until someone wants it.
If we stay, will those deeds feed us this winter?