Battle Mountain seems to be the stationary home at this part in the story. As the father loses his job and food becomes very scarce, Jeannette’s mother got a teaching job and this introduced a conflict of who controls the money now between the parents. Jeanettes friendship with Billy which turned out to be the friend you don’t want had cost them another home. I think the gun should have been more carefully explained to the kids so they would not have shot at Billy. There stay at Battle mountain is coming to an end and Phoniex is next.

So far the story goes along revealing big important things about this family little by little. Jeannette shows me how her father is still the greatest to her even without the means to get her a proper birthday present. They way the children are all raised seems very improper and unsafe to our normal lives. Their lives are lived according to a plan of finding gold but the gold rush days are over and time is this families enemy as they continuously get chased from their place of rest. This book also shares a connection of a family restaurant you usually visit like the Owl Club.