Meg is a well-off girl from St. Louis who gets sent to Kansas Territory with her younger brother because cholera is hitting St. Louis. Despite being rather pampered, she adjusts to prairie life quickly. She is joined eventually by her mother and younger sister, then finally her father. Her father and uncle fight the Border Ruffians, men who came to Kansas for the sole purpose to vote it as a slave state, and her father loses the use of his left arm. Thanks to this injury, Meg's family moves into a home in Lawrence, where she enjoys living in town close to the school.
Anything prairie will always remind me of Little House, although the author did a very good job of telling about life on the prairie without actually sounding much like Little House at all. The only bit that really made me smile was Meg's teacher bearing the name of Miss Wilder. Heh.
The Meg trilogy is McMullan's only contribution to any of the DA series, but she did a fun series called Myth-O-Mania that I will be reviewing as I reread it. I just learned two new volumes came out in 2013 and 2014! Had no idea!
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