Stewart, George Rippey

When a deadly virus wipes out most of human civilization, Ish and a handful of survivors struggle to create a community in a world no longer dominated by human life.

Relates the hardships encountered by a group of pioneers travelling by covered wagon from Iowa to California in 1844.

When a deadly virus wipes out most of human civilization, intellectual loner Isherwood Williams and a handful of survivors struggle to create a community in a world no longer dominated by human life.

Dictionary on the history of American first names.