Title: Twelve travelers, twenty horses
Description: On the way to California with their kind new master, thirteen-year-old Jacob, his mother, and other slaves are caught up in adventures that include trying to stop a plot to help the South secede from the Union.
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, Juvenile fiction, History, African Americans, Slavery, Fiction, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction
Places: United States, West (U.S.)
Time periods: 1849-1877