Description: Home of William W. & J.A. Johnstone
Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River—the longest in North America—all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile attacks by the Blackfeet and Arikara. Luke Ransom was one of
MEET THE FAMILY THAT TAMED THE WILD WEST
A strong, beautiful mother of five, Kate Kerrigan has made do since losing her husband in the bloody Battle of Shiloh. Now, two years after the Civil War, there’s nothing left for them in Tennessee but poverty and bad memories. So Kate decides a better life awaits them in far-off West West Texas. Thus begins a 1000- mile trek through some of the harshest and most dangerous territory on the frontier.But by pulling together, the Kerrigans discover the conviction to over come the unimaginable hardships and the