Doctor Franklin Pierce and his sister learned their profession during the Civil War. After the war they started a mobile practice to treat women, delivering babies, Hysteria, and other ailments, as they traveled in a route from Kansas City south to Parsons then back up to Kansas City before winter. They had become lovers, but everyone assumed they were married! This is the story of their first year on the circuit.
A redheaded girl of sixteen becomes a mail order bride. She is met at the train in Nebraska by her fiancé and they quickly marry. She becomes frustrated when she learns that she is unable to bare children.
Fourteen-year-old, androgynously beautiful Damian Stanton is pulled from his boys’ school in England in 1914 for fear that the older boys at school will do him as both they and his tutor have already done him. He is taken to the family’s rubber plantation in Malay, where all the men also want to do him. While the plantation men jockey for Damian, they do each other.