Agnes's Rescue: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl

Embark on a true adventure through the eyes of a child who sailed, rode, and walked it (portrayed in the motion picture, 17 Miracles). Nine-year-old Agnes hopes for a better life in the USA-but will she survive the journey to her new home? Leaving her brother in Scotland (her father already lost at sea), brave Agnes sails with her Scottish-Irish mother and siblings to New York in 1856. They travel by train to the edge of the Western Frontier in Iowa then walk west 1,200 miles with little fo...