Sammy is a violinist and knows languages. When a storm breaks on the prairie, Sammy knows that “thunder and lightning end and here come their dawdling children, plump droplets falling from the sky,” which lends a lyrical sensuality to the story. For instance, one’s fate is vastly affected depending on whether one is born in the year of the Rat or the Dragon. Sammy uses Chinese lore to identify her place in the world. A mule is eventually procured so everyone has a mount.īesides the adventure, Sammy and Andy are getting to know each other. She fears he will feel her female figure. The “boys” trade their cooking and healing skills for the opportunity to move fast on horseback with the cowboys.Īt first Sammy has to share a horse with West. Peety nicknames the “boys” Chinito and Andito. His brooding cousin West has rough-hewn good looks. The “boys” soon meet three young cowboys. Besides which, a gang of escaped slaves known for breaking the hands of their victims roams the wilderness, wanted for murder. The law is after a Chinese and a black girl. Sammy and Andy stow away on the last wagon of the evening being ferried across the river, headed west. The girls cut their hair, wrap their chests, dress as boys, become Sammy and Andy, and set out on the Overland Trail. Being Chinese puts her at a disadvantage with the law, so she flees with Annamae, Yorkshire’s black slave girl. She whacks him with a scrub brush and he’s dead. Ty Yorkshire under the guise of helping Samantha, tries to rape her. Samantha, a Chinese girl, watches her father’s grocery store go up in flames.
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