The thrilling story of a modern pioneer family. . . . An intensely human account filled with fun, courage and rich family life.-Seattle Post Intelligencer During the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a United States senator), his wife Grace, and their three small children-moved to an Idaho sheep ranch in the Snake River gorge just below Hell's Canyon, the deepest scratch on the face of North America.