In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in Kansas in the late 1850s operates a station on the Underground Railroad, while almost 150 years later twelve-year-old Dana moves into the same house and finds the skeleton of a black woman who helped the Quakers.
General Note
Original copyright: 1994.
"Aladdin historical fiction"--Cover.
Content Note
Tear Down the Wall -- No Names -- Identity: Unknown -- The Wakarusa War -- Night of the Living Bones -- The Free-State Hotel -- No Nancy Drews -- You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! -- Edmund Wolcott's Castle -- Thirty Cannonballs -- The Sack of Lawrence -- Follow the Drinking Gourd -- The Conductor -- Three First Names -- Uncle Mose -- They Never Looked Back -- The View from Lizbet's Cot -- Like a Real Son -- Plumb Crazy -- Tornado! -- Wild Indigo -- Hush Puppies -- Will's Quest -- I'm Melting, I'm Melting! -- All Alone -- Hog Slaughter -- The Funeral -- The Return of Marshal Fain -- Up to the Tower -- Amen -- Written in Stone.