About this story
Along the way you take in Clay, a boy just orphaned beside his mother's grave, and carry him aboard the steamboat Boreas. When a rival vessel challenges the captain's pride, the two boats race side by side until a boiler bursts, and you spend the night pulling survivors from the wreck.
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?