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Get ready for an unforgettable family saga in 1967 Carson Valley, Nevada, as seen through the eyes of sixteen year old Lissy Bloomingson. She reluctantly moves to the valley with her parents and younger brother Roger. Lissy and Roger come to the high desert at the foot of the Sierras as grumpy complainers and long for their cozy suburban lives back in California. Why would God send them out to such a strange place? Things were a lot rougher than they had expected. Would they have the "right stuff" to become real Nevadans? Would they ever be glad that they moved there? Their faith in God would be tested and twirled like a dust devil throws around dead sage and Russian Thistles, and yet, as always, there was hope in God. They had no idea about the romance and adventure that lay ahead—the paint horse and the wild herd, the very stuck-up neighbor girl and best of all, the guy named Buck.

 Even though the places and the names of their locations in the books are real, all of the Bloomingsons of the Nevada Sage characters and their names are entirely fictional. Roger and Lissy, their parents Paul and Katy, the neighbor man Mr. Newman and his grandson Buck, their friends Pearl and Stoney, loyal Ernie and generous little Deedee, the Journoir boys, crazy Henry, slimey little Irwin, good-hearted Mrs. MacCauley and Mr. Min, and even horrible Rigney—maybe you’ve known or heard of some people like them some of the time. Maybe you’ve even been like some of them at one time or another, but we can all fight our sin nature and do what’s right, or follow it and do what’s wrong and end up in a heap of trouble from our own making. The world, with its evil despots, has problems enough for us, and good behaving or bad, we’re all in the same stew pot! 

Sixteen-year-old Lissy Bloomingson and her family have come to love Nevada with its beauty and hardships and rustic living. They're learning to appreciate the people that they're getting to know, with a sense of God's grace working through certain persons and events in their lives. Lissy and Buck MacCleod start out on a journey of friendship that will take them to unimagined places of the heart. Fun and love can bring you together, but so can difficulty and tragedy. They learn that even the worst things in life could be the most meaningful when it comes to loving each other and sticking together. The decisions that we make have definite and sometimes drastic consequences, more drastic and powerful than a herd of buffalo running through a place that they shouldn't be!