On a St. Louis dock, a witty and mysterious lady and her polite jailer wait to board the river packet Mount Vernon. Her journey brings her into the household of Dunwody, a hot-tempered Missouri planter, at a moment when abolitionist raids and Washington intrigue over compromise are pushing the country toward war.
A historical romance of the 1850s by the author of The Covered Wagon, with the racial assumptions of its 1910 date. Download the free EPUB.
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