The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie NewtonAn American classic from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer winning A Thousand Acres. Lidie Newton is an extraordinary female protagonist, a genuine Great American Character, like Huck Finn or Isabel Archer. Lidie and her abolitionist husband join the pioneering westward migration into Americas heartland in the middle of the last century. Together with their family and friends, they find themselves caught amidst two great American forces. Vicious