A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.

Man and boy -- Onward -- The widow's cruse -- Last supper at Brown's -- Counting the days -- Snowblind -- The long way home -- The body swap -- The gift -- The lost seed -- Vanitas -- The hunt -- Daddy's girl -- What remains.