Dansville High School LMC

The Sound of the Trees A Novel
Robert Payne Gatewood

Eighteen-year-old Trude Mason and his mother set off on horseback from New Mexico during the Great Depression to escape his increasingly brutal father, but tragedy strikes as they try to reach Colorado, and Trude's situation becomes even more desperate when he becomes involved with a beautiful young girl who is being held captive by an unscrupulous Englishman.