Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave.
Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows s.
She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him.
They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free.
Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave