During the late nineteenth century people from all over the world were moving across our country in search of better lives, but many did not find them. Some could not overcome the overwhelming odds to succeed in a young, rapidly developing country. And when those people died, many ended up buried in the potter's fields of small, Midwestern towns. These are some of their mostly true stories, written in verse and beautifully illustrated. They are sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, and often heroic. Together they tell the other side of the story of the land of opportunity, one which is critical to our understanding of what it took to build this country, and the price that some paid.