A poor farm family with seven children set out on a journey across the Great Plains in three tiny prairie schooners. They encountered twisters, flashfloods and blizzards, Indians, barnstormers and bank robbers, injury, accident and runaway horses. It was a remarkable journey. But by the time it had ended, they were down to one wagon and had fallen 176 miles short of their destination. It took a Christmas miracle to save their lives.