Eldene Ana McGrady: Tragedy, Adventure, and a New Beginning

Eldene McGrady is the mother of two teenage children. Taylor, a strapping six-foot fifteen-and-half-year-old, and his little sister, Patty, who is fourteen, just eleven months younger than Taylor. Eldene is suddenly widowed due to an accident in which her husband, Jake, is killed. Her grief is such that she just can't continue their life in Baltimore and sells all her holdings and decides, along with her children, to plan and join a wagon train and move West to the Oregon Territory. The yea...