In 1875 Susanna Alden travels from her home in Ohio to the bleak Kansas prairie where she's to be a schoolteacher. She discovers bitter divisions from the Civil War have not healed here. So she moves her school to neutral ground into a sod house on the prairie. She comes to care deeply for her students and their parents, all resolutely fighting to eke out a living from the harsh land. Susanna is drawn to two men, Matt Rawdon, a doctor, and Ase McCanless, a rancher. Through her compassion and love Susanna helps to create a solid community.

Read by Stephanie Brush.

Approx. 13 Hrs. 12 Tapes