The death of old Ned, the Morrison family's dependable work horse, sets three Morrison teenagers off on a quest from Sugar Branch, Indiana, to Rushford, New York, in 1840 to secure horses promised to their father. In the novel Sugar Branch , the author, Don Morrison, chronicles the saga of these young siblings as they are beset with obstacles of hunger, attacks by frontier ruffians, capture by Indians and a steamboat accident. He creates a panorama...