Author: Bonnie Sage Ball

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Published: 1955

Total Pages: 72

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This is a true story of a family of frontiersmen in the Virginia backwoods of the late 18th and 19th centuries. This is about the Sage family and the tragic disapperance fo young Caty Sage is based on original documents and letter. This book highlights the remarkable fortitude and strength of character of the early settlers of the South and the West; it chronicles the unique events of one family's struggles, victories, and defeatss, in the efforts to survive the hardships of the frontier. The Sage family, that has established a successful pedigreed-horse business in beautiful Elk Creek Valley, Virginia is strick with tragedy. Victimized by horse thieves, the Sages fight back, and in the ensuing struggle their child Caty is mysterious kidnapped.Three decades later the Sage family breaks up, some of the children moving to the Cumberlands, others to Tennessee, and still others to the wild plains of Kansas following the path opened by the Lewis and Clark expedition.