To Look for My Children (Paperback or Softback)

The Lawler family is moving west, heading for Oregon along the Oregon Trail. Their wagon train got a late start, and because of that, they reach Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, much later than they should. When the train members come to understand their tardiness, they set out cross-country to pick up the Bozeman Trail, with the notion of heading to Bozeman, Montana.

The Lawlers' wagon is disabled, and Caleb Lawler comes down with what the other party members believe is cholera. The Lawlers are left by the other emigrants, who promise to send help.

The Lawler children, Andy, Anne, Maggie, and Jerusha, are alone after their parents die. They set out to follow the others across the Wyoming plains. When they find the wagon train has been attacked by Indians, they change direction, deciding to cross the mountains to get to their destination more rapidly. It is a very wrong decision, but they have no way of knowing that.

June Harris received her first encouragement in writing when she won second place in a county essay contest as a seventh grader in her native Mississippi. She continued writing through high school in Arizona, and received another writing award in college. After graduating from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, she began a life-long career in education, but she was hooked on writing and kept writing in her spare time. She received a master's degree in English from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and a Ph. D. in reading from the University of Arizona. Her first book, a Gothic romance, was published in 1982. She has written predominantly historical fiction to this point, but she is in the process of writing a contemporary thriller. Ms. Harris currently resides in Arizona. She is the mother of five children and the grandmother of nine. She has taken up writing full time in her retirement.