title: Against All Odds
author: Riefe, Barbara
description: Excited about their upcoming trip to California, Lucy Scott Mitchum and her husband Noah never expected the many difficulties and great dangers they had to endure on their way to begin their new life in the West.
  
  Lucy Scott Mitchum was not sure how she felt about California. But that's where she and her family were going. Since they'd packed all their belongings and started on the long trail West, Lucy and her husband, Noah, had talked of nothing but their future. California was Paradise and unlimited opportunity and untold riches. Noah was going to the gold fields and he would strike it rich -- nothing less than a fortune would do.But before the promise of California, there would be seemingly endless miles of prairie and mountain, swollen rivers and disease, and Indians and madness. But Lucy and her little family would have to survive a 2000 mile ordeal before they got there. It would be harder than she ever imagined....