A Gathering of Orphans Contributor(s): Neighbor, Ralph (Author) |
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ISBN: 1533571708 ISBN-13: 9781533571700 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.91 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.49 lbs) 146 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: It is 1846, the year of the Mexican war. Ray Dobbs, a retired fur trapper and mountain man, has been engaged to guide an English nobleman's party on a hunting expedition in the North American wilderness. Ray is to meet the nobleman, Lord Edwin, and his entourage at the hunting grounds, a large basin deep in the Rocky Mountains known as Bayou Salade, present day South Park, Colorado. Ray's initial task is to bring fifty horses and a wagon load of arms, ammunition and supplies from St. Louis to the Bayou. As they traverse the prairie Ray and his native partner, Crowbait, are blessed with a series of waifs. The first is Dusty, an abused runaway. The second is Moe, an autistic savant orphaned by a massacre. The next orphan is Bluebird, a small Cheyenne girl and the last is Little Weasel, a white boy captured in infancy and raised in the same ill-fated Cheyenne band. The story is told by these youngsters. The prairie crossing is made difficult by an Indian attack, thunderstorms, a sandstorm and a bear attack. |