In March 1912, the Clive Owen family fled Mexico in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1910 to San Antonio, Texas. This collection tells of their departure and subsequent relocations to Anaheim; Boyero, Lincoln County, Colorado; and eventually Ottawa, Kansas and is comprised mostly of the diaries of matriarch Mabel Lucy Kelsey Owen, as well as letters, interviews, and interjections from Paul C. Owen, son of Mabel and Clive and self-titled editor of the collection.