Bob had been very happy as a brand new employee of The Company. He knew he had been given an almost unbelievable opportunity, one he didn't even deserve because of his lack of any professional credentials. The Manager is gracious, hires him anyway, and assures him that he will receive all the training he needs to do well. But as time passes, Bob learns there are difficulties and stressful circumstances both from within and outside The Company. He becomes weary and resentful, and eventually finds himself on the brink of giving up and returning to his former unrewarding job as a dishwasher at a...

Jennifer is thrilled when she and her brother Russell set out with a wagon train to find their dreams of land ownership out west. However, her sense of adventure fades to weary disenchantment as the lush green of the east gives way to the dry and dusty plains of the west. Although the journey at first is bearable, things change for the worse when one of the two horses needed to pull their wagon steps into a hole left by a burrowing varmint. Abandoned on the desolate prairie, they are rescued by an Indian who provides another horse. They arrive in the only nearby town with renewed hope only to...