TY - BOOK AU - Snelling,Lauraine TI - The long way home T2 - A secret refuge SN - 1410414590 (lg. print : hc : alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - Waterville, Me. PB - Thorndike Press KW - Large type books KW - Overland journeys to the Pacific KW - Fiction KW - Women pioneers KW - Christian fiction KW - gsafd KW - Western stories N2 - As the Civil War rages across the land, two courageous young women embark on separate perilous missions ...Heading west on the Oregon Trail with he family's with her Thoroughbreds and a ragtag band of freed slaves, Jesselynn Highwood and her companions are forced to separate from their wagon train and begin a new journey fraught with hardship and peril. Back East, while smuggling medical supplies, her sister Louisa and brother Zachary are captured by enemy soldiers. Will the war's end bring the Highwood family together again? ER -