Beschreibung:
A prize winning academic, Laural Means is the author of three previous books in medieval literature, paleography and early science. She is currently a Research Fellow at University of Minnesota, and Professor Emeritus of Medieval Language and Literature at McMaster University in Canada. She lives in Chaska, MN. This is her first book.
When Civil War veterans Henry Morton and his son, Wilson, return to the family farm after years of combat and imprisonment in a Confederate jail, they find that Henry's wife has died and his daughter Helen has eloped. Both Wilson and Morton's younger son William are determined to leave the farm for the nearby town.