When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
While on a field trip to Scrub Brush, Sam and her friends discover that someone is trying to close down the historic frontier town and they must uncover the villain to save Scrub Brush.
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.