| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
188 pages ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
| Note |
"Some characters, adventures, letters and conversations from the year 1863, including a deadly chase in the wilderness of the Fearsome Canyon, all as told by Billy Christmas, who was there." |
| Summary |
In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian. |
| Contents |
In which I find my self pursued -- Attack at the triple X ranch -- What I had fled -- A visit with a Paiute -- In which Ii venture among the talking rocks and meet crazy James Kincaid -- I write a letter and am murdered -- I find I have been curiously robbed -- Epistolary -- I try the good life and fail misrably -- Having been robbed again, I prepare to live a moral civilized life -- In which the moral life finds me wanting and vice-a-versa -- Whilst in captivity, I meet a hyena, man in the black hat, and a visiter from afar -- I come to judgment -- In which I regain something I had lost -- Another murder -- I deliver a stonishing message and go to the Smeeds, where I meet Dexter -- Siege -- Canyon -- End of it all and some beginnings, too. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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West United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1861 - 1865 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Juvenile works.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0060598417 |
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9780060598419 |
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0060598425 (library binding) |
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9780060598426 (library binding) |
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