This is the tale of the MacCallum family facing life during the eighteen hundreds. It depicts the adventures, unexpected dangers, many disappointments and the heart breaks they experienced as life and time strolled on. Laced throughout the story are some little known historical facts about the United States during this adventurous era. Ira, who has inherited an enormous fortune from his father, takes his true love from England to America and begins a new life there as the country is still in its early stages of settlement. From there you will follow three generations of the MacCallums as they venture through time and the vast expanse of rugged territory that the early United States encompased.