Based on her Real life journey...Minnie Leigh Robertson was forced to take a path that turned her world upside down. In the East Tennessee Mountains at the age of thirteen, living a very simple content life, Minnie never dreamed of living anywhere but on her mountain. Her days were filled with digging Ginseng, gathering wild herbs and tending a small number of livestock her father kept-2 cows for milking, a couple of goats for cheese and there were always chickens for eggs. Raised by her father a bitter Veteran of the Great War, Minnie is forced onto a path that she feels she will never escape eventually Minnie chooses her own path and discovers it leads her to much more than she was first traded for.