Fourteen-year-old Alex Hopewell, oldest son of his widowed mother, believes he is responsible to take care of his family. But nothing is simple. His younger brother Cyrus shirks duties by trying to dream up new-fangled contraptions. A blonde-haired girl complicates his life. And some menacing gunmen hide a mysterious package at the family's bakery. When her husband is killed in a railroad accident, leaving no pension or provision for the future, Daisy Hopewell opens a bakery with her three sons and sells doughnuts in northern Utah Territory in 1869. With the help of friends in the Union Pacific Railroad, Daisy secures a great location for her bakery at Promontory Point. Everyone converging on the Utah plains knows that when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroad lines join, history as well as fortunes will be made. Will that include the Hopewells too?
Gabe can hardly believe the family’s tender care for him, and when he gets a chance to help them, he rides several legs of the dangerous Pony Express trail with the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election and the impending Civil War. Gabe learns the power of prayer and love in this second installment of the Adventures on the American Frontier series.
