Prairie Elephant

Faced with breast cancer, a phone call disrupts Ali’s morbid thoughts of suicide. Later that day, sorting through her grandmother’s attic, she comes across an old trunk, and inside, tucked into the folds of a quilt; she discovers a diary from 1861. Fascinated, she gets comfortable and begins to read… (1861) Seventeen-year-old Alexandria McLeod watches in dismay while her mother makes the decision that will change her life forever.

After Alex’s Uncle is viciously maimed and her Aunt violated, Mama insists they must leave Missouri, now scavenged by marauders spat out from the budding Civil War. In one short week, they will head to Oregon, the land of Papa’s dream.