Experienc the lives of two orphan children that are thrust together and do their best to survive and build a life. This is during the Missouri-Kansas Conflict in 1854 and the horror and chaos of the border conflicts during and before the civil war
Then  visit a small ranch in Northern California about 1935. Maybe this story isn't about the civil war at all. Maybe it's how their lives and times helped shape a boy not even born in the same century.