Freedom Trail

About the Book

Kansas was a bloody preview of the Civil war. Jared, left man of the family, joins with a Shawnee and a black to smuggle escaped slaves north on the underground railroad. Winner of Western Writers of America Best Western Juvenile of 1973.

About the Author

Jeanne Williams was born in Kansas but spent her teen years on her grandparents' Missouri farm not far from the Civil War battleground of Pea ridge. She had forebears on both sides in the Civil War and people still told stories of Quantrill and the cruel border war.