A thirteen-year-old cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore from a British shipwreck onto the Queensland coast, and is taken in by Australian aborigines in the mid-1840s.
Chronicles the American experiences of Angus McCaskill and Rob Barclay, Scottish immigrants, who lived for three decades in Two Medicine Country at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
Kathleen leaves her homeland in search of a new life, as a mail-order bride. Her nervousness is matched by her prospective groom, Donnigan Harrison, who is a farmer on the western frontier.