Manhunt in the wild world of the American West: between a Western and nature writing.

Abigael, Lisbeth, Samantha, Ellen, Maureen, and Anton are in a wagon headed for the Far West: five girls and a blind boy that form a family of lost children taken in by Hidalgo, a French gunslinger who could never leave orphans to their fate. Dreaming of a better world and future, they head out to conquer the West, learning to defend themselves along the way against the many dangers in these lands, where men are just as savage as animals. But the ghosts of the past are on their heels, and every day will be a merciless fight.