Grant Cannon’s father left a hardscrabble East Texas farm for the Colorado gold fields in the 1860s. After two years of waiting, their mother left for San Francisco and Grant and his brother headed west to look for their father, Dale. They stumble on a collection of homesteads that the residents, mostly former slaves, call Freedom Town. They stay there for several years, thinking that Dale is dead.Dale had been shot and robbed but survived three years alone in the mountains with amn...