Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1846, Sarah Barrows was about to leave her home in Illinois for California. She was in love with a young man who played the violin, and she was about to get married to him. But her mother and father and siblings were about to leave for California, and she would never see them again.#2 When Sarah broke off the engagement and chose to follow her family, she had to leave behind this place she had lived since she was six, the only place she could remember as home.#3 Sarah’s family lived on the western side of the Oregon River, near Lacon. They were well known and widely regarded with affection by the villagers in Lacon. Sarah had to leave all of this behind if she wanted to move to California.#4 The Graves family, who moved to Illinois, was extremely hardworking and generous. They were also extremely cold-blooded, as they would help their neighbors with the coldest winter of 1839–40.