This book chronicles the life of Phoebe Anderson from her birth in the 1850s until her death in the 1920s. Phobe's mother died in childbirth, and she was raised on a dirt poor farm in Missouri by her older brother of four years and father. The family moved to Kansas for a better life. Phoebe's father and brother are killed in the slaughter by the Quantrill guerrilla raid on Lawrence. Armed with a hatred of the bushwhackers who...