Fifteen-year-old Becky becomes involved in a mystery in the Mississippi River town of Richmond, Illinois (nicknamed "Jimtown") in 1843 when the settlers' church money mysteriously disappears. Are the Bandits of the Prairie the culprits? Becky helps Paul, the Bandits' prisoner, escape and then is herself abducted. Her romantic rescue as the secrets of the Jimtown mystery unfold brings the story to an exciting conclusion. Most of the plot, places and names are real, thoroughly researched and documented by the author.
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