Getting mother's body

Description:

Learning that a company plans to dig up the area where her mother is buried, supposedly with a cache of jewels, Billy Beede, poor and pregnant, heads for Arizona to rescue her mother's body and search for the jewels that could bring her a new life.

subjects: African American families,  Poor families,  Treasure trove,  Fiction,  Treasure troves,  Treasure-trove,  Historical fiction,  Domestic fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Texas, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Treasure-troves

Places: Texas