Bonner's Den is a sweeping saga beginning with a teenage boy, Fergus, leaving a hardscrabble farm in the Tennessee mountains and a young woman, Morgan, leaving a failing Ohio farm with her husband and young son. They all head west and finally meet near Pierce, Idaho during the Pierce gold rush. Morgan and her husband headed initially for the California gold fields before heading for Pierce. Fergus made his way west, working as a muleskinner on the...