Audiobook CHAPTER 2 The Prairie Trail

Send us Fan Mail On a sweltering September afternoon in 1874, the exhausted German family trudges along the abandoned Smoky Hill stage road in western Kansas, their livestock near collapse and water rations nearly depleted. Relief arrives when two passing buffalo hunters inform patriarch John German that Fort Wallace is merely thirty-five miles away, promising safety, supplies, and shelter within a day and a half. Although the hunters offer a fleeting warning about keeping low fires due to ro...