title: The Dusty Trail
author: Sweetwood, Barbara Sue
description: The intriguing tale of a young couple, Jeb and Mattie Barton, in 1850 who decide to leave the luxuries they have grown accustom to in St. Louis, Missouri and join a wagon train that takes them down The Santa Fe Trail. It is a story of hardship, heartbreak, horrible weather, sickness, death and disease all for the chance to follow their dreams. It seemed that everything was against them in this fictional but historically correct account of the newlyweds and their love for an orphaned young boy who was in search of loving parents and a real home.