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Taylor,
Theodore
WALKING
UP A RAINBOW
San
Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1994.
IL YA
ISBN
0380725024
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Carlisle is brave. At 14, she amputated an arm. She sewed up hatchet cuts,
she challenged a cheapskate saloon keeper for extra time to repay her father's
debts and proceeded to trek across the US with mangy dogs and well-worn
mountain men though there was one star -- a 23 year old cowboy whom she
decided at the outset would be good marrying potential. This story is amazing
in how much can happen going from avenging rustlers to natural foes of
quicksand, desert and poison waters. The surprise is the trek home by boat
from San Francisco to Central America, then across the isthmus and up the
Mississippi back to home base. The adventure packed into this one book
is great. |
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SUBJECTS:
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction
Orphans -- Fiction
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Fiction |
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