Horizons West

Horizons West . . . 2002 ISBN 0-89745-260-7 244 p. softcover John Ross, of Scotland, travels to America in 1775 to escape persecution and death, then fights for his new land in the Revolutionary War. Years later his grandson, James Ross, enlists with the Confederacy. In 1870, after five years of harsh reconstruction following the Civil War, James and his young family move to Kansas to homestead on Upper McDowell Creek.