Roundabout Road Author:Gertrude Bell, Judith Ritchie, illustrator To protect their guns, gold, and a valuable race horse from thieves in the early days of the Civil War, three youngsters take a roundabout road on their three-hundred-mile journey home across Missouri. — The state of Missouri, in the days before the Civil War, was involved in a small civil war of its own. Some people wanted the state to support t... more »he Confederacy. Others wanted to stay with the Union. There were riots and fights. Outlaws roamed the countryside stealing horses, guns, anything that was valuable. This is the setting for Roundabout Road.; B&W Illustrations; 173 pages.« less