"But what will you do about rattlesnakes?" In 1978 a 37-year old woman, naive and inexperienced, leaves husband and children behind to trace the 2,000-mile pioneer Donner Trail. She walks...Alone. From her original raw journal we feel her ordeal of incapacitating foot pain, bewilderment, and fears of a woman alone in cities, back roads, deserts, wilderness... And then, as surely as the stars come out above her at night, the American people emerge one by one in a proud pageant of characters. From a dirt poor, aging Nebraska couple: "Here now, you just come on in. It's all right to cry. Set...