Product Description

The Civil War has broken out in Missouri and Lettie Worthington won't take sides--though she has a brother fighting in each army and a fiancé with a guerrilla band sympathetic to the South. Not involved in the conflict, Lettie deals with her own struggles and hardships at home, and with the help of former slaves, she saves her family's hemp and tobacco farm. Upon learning that both brothers were in the Battle of Lexington, twenty miles west, she leaves the farm and paddles a skiff up the Missouri River to find them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2712336 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 273 pages

Review
Winner of the 2007 Walter Williams Major Work Award --Missouri Writers' Guild

About the Author
Ellen Gray Massey has published numerous articles, short stories, essays, and books. In 1995 she was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame of America and her writing has received numerous other awards. From 1973 to 1983 she directed high school students who published Bittersweet, the Ozark Quarterly. Her recent books are The Bittersweet Ozarks at a Glance, and novels, The Burnt District, and New Hope.