
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat-building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year-old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.
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Glynis Johns as Jo Eunson

Cameron Mitchell as Robert Eunson

Rex Thompson as Robbie Eunson

Patty McCormack as Annabelle Eunson

Ernest Truex as Doctor Delbert

Hope Emerson as Mrs. Pubmeister

Alan Hale Jr. as Tom Cullen

Sylvia Field as Lelia Delbert

Royal Dano as Howard Tyler

Reta Shaw as Mrs. Runyon

Stephen Wootton as Jimmy Eunson

Tom Nolan as Kirk Eunson

Yolanda White as Elizabeth Eunson

Rita Johnson as Katie Tyler

Ellen Corby as Mrs. Raiden

Francis De Sales as Mr. Stephens

Jon Provost as Robbie Eunson - age 6

Dabbs Greer as Clendenning

Mary Adams as Mrs. Roscoe
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