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Sixteen-year-old Harriet Winter can cook, clean, spin and sew. She's a good daughter and certainly of an age to become a biddable wife. Except for one problem. There's not a biddable bone in her body - and she will not marry Daniel Long, the neighbor whose initials, whittled on everything he possesses, spell D.U.I.. Harriet wants to decide her own future. When her brother Gideon confides his plan to strike out for the Genese Valley, Harriet decides to go, too...but not as a girl.

Disguised as an orphan named Freddy, Harriet makes her way west by wagon with Gideon while trying to forget Daniel, about whom she's lately had second (and third) thoughts. At last they arrive at the thick wilderness where Gideon intends to make his home. And it is here, amid sickness, temptation, unexpected guests, and a never-ending battle to create a clearing in the woods, that Harriet finally understands what it is she really wants, from her life and from herself.
Soft cover.