The Children on the Plains

The Children on the Plains tells the story of two, young, Christian teens and their mother who start out to make the perilous journey from Ohio to California. They begin the trip as part of a large wagon train, but their mother dies almost immediately into the journey and not long thereafter, all members of the expedition except the two teens decide to return home. In short order, their wagon gets bogged down crossing a river, two of their three mules are stolen, and they are kidnapped by Indians who want the young woman to cure the chief's daughter of cholera. The young woman, especially, maintains a positive attitude based soley on Faith alone, and they push on in the face of overwhelming odds.

Sarah Schoonmaker Tuthill (Aunt Friendly) (1824-1906) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the youngest daughter of Cornelius Tuthill Esq. and Mrs. Louisa Caroline Higgins, who were both writers and enjoyed books. Her father died when she was one year old. She married Woods Baker in 1851 who worked for the U. S. Coast Survey, and who died in 1852. They had one child. Sarah moved to Sweden in 1876. Some of her works have been translated into French, Italian and Swedish.

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