A natural storyteller, author Jane Candia Coleman offers nine stories about the many physical and psychological borders of people's lives. Among them, "Sandhill Cranes" tells of the long and perilous journeys of the children who were sent west on orphan trains in the late 1800s. The title story is comprised of many journeys and a multitude of crossings, including Pancho Villa's raid on New Mexico -- an act of unprecedented daring by a most unusual revolutionary leader.