Chapters 11-15 Summary

In chapter 11, Will works hard planting newly plowed fields with corn, putting all his hopes into the fertile soil. In addition to planting and tending the fields, Will and Abby work to build up their homestead. Abby helps Will dig a well for water and they plant trees to create a windbreak for the house they hope to build one day. During that first summer, Sarah Lutz's young brother is bitten by a snake and dies from the venom. In chapter 12, the fall comes and finds little crop due to the lack of rain all summer. Will is determined not to give up, however. The following year the crop is fair, but still lacking the wealth Will and Abbie had dreamed of. Will continues on, planting an orchard and dreaming of the roads and towns that will soon grow up around...