Treasured Pioneers

Kansas became the goal for the Johnson and Campbell clans who were forced to find safe territory after helping the slaves in Arkansas seek asylum in Missouri on their way to the North. This is their true story told by word of mouth and finally written by Sarah Anne Campbell Boston before she passed to her Maker in the winter of 1951. Remembering being thrown into a flour bin larger than she was at barely two years old she had vivid recollections of the Indians and where she fit into the family. The rest is a collection of tales as related by her husband, Lon Boston a real cowboy who knew tales he couldn't share with a woman, and her Ma and Pa who left letters and books of their families still in Scotland, Norway and Switzerland. I hope readers enjoy the memories as much as I enjoyed remembering not only the sagas but those who shared them with all the gusto only someone who had lived them could express. This book, though true, includes imagined dialogue to make the story more enjoyable.