After running away from the Mississippi plantation where they had been slaves, nine-year-old Jeremiah Johnson and his family begin a new life in Nebraska, where Jeremiah meets a Cheyenne boy who becomes a good friend.
Story of Billy, a streetwise kid from NYC, sent to Nebraska where he is taken in by a Swedish farm family as part of the historic Orphan Train program of the Midwest at the turn of the century.
After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father bring home an orphan boy to help with chores, Nate feels even worse.
