In the winter of 1846, 238 men, women, and children, boarded a 125 foot sailing vessel in New York Harbor bound for California and relative obscurity. It became a voyage nearly forgotten by history. This is the personal story of one family that made that voyage with a treasured heirloom, a feather bed. You might say, "just baggage," but if such baggage could speak, what stories it could tell of adventure, intrigue, discovery, and courage. The Feather Bed is historical fiction woven with threads of pure fact from documents and letters handed down through generaations. It is history, dramatized to bring its characters to life for this generation to know and understand what it was like to live at the edges of history and be a part of extraordinary events.
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