Jayhawkers
Description
By the early 1840s the edge of the frontier was Saint Joe, Missouri. Thousands of daring souls made their way west for the chance at a new life.
Angus Wade was such a young man. He packed up his family and gambled that he would find his place on the edge of civilization.
For the next 40 years the Wades with their persistence and will to succeed would become a part of the story of the west, living through the sagas of wagon trains, Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War and laying the foundation for what America became.
For most of the nineteenth century this was the way to change your lot in life. People from every walk of life and from every country on earth came by the tens of thousands. Some came just to escape their old life. Some came for land. Others came for their brand of religious freedom. Many came for gold.
Whether they found what they came for or not, the west forever changed the adventurers and all their descendants.
