All Together in One Place

by Jane Kirkpatrick Book 1 in the Kinship and Courage series.

First published 2000

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Mazy Bacon expects a settled Wisconsin life until her husband sells their home and announces that they are joining the 1852 migration west. On the Oregon Trail, she and eleven other women are forced into responsibility when illness and death dismantle the assumptions on which their households depended.

Inspired by an actual emigrant incident, the novel makes cooperation the women’s essential resource. Their faith is stretched by grief, resentment and fear, yet shared labour gradually turns strangers into a community capable of carrying children, wagons and hope towards an uncertain destination.