The Covered Wagon and Other Adventures - Softcover

Scott, Lynn H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803292228 ISBN 13: 9780803292222

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1993

Synopsis

In the spring of 1906 the Scott family traveled six hundred miles by covered wagon in search of relief from asthma and rheumatism-from St. Paul, Nebraska, to Thermopolis, Wyoming. The entire trip, recounted by a youngster, is full of vividly remembered adventures. There are encounters with Indians, sheepmen, and freighters; crises involving rattlesnakes, black ants, rock avalanches, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever; descriptions of hunting antelope and camping out under the stars. More excitement is in store when the family settles on a small ranch at the edge of the badlands. The Covered Wagon is charmingly illustrated by sketches that Lynn Scott originally drew for his grandchildren.

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Review:

"Lynn Scott's book will make you wish you had been there, too."-Charles Kuralt -- Charles Kuralt "Vivid and engrossing."-New York Times Book Review New York Times Book Review "Scott's story is full of family spirit and awesome details for today's kids-a real treat for kids in 1906 was ten cents worth of raisins. This is a useful resource for teachers looking for ways to bring American history alive."-Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews "What was it like when you were a kid? Lynn H. Scott gives us his answer In [a] delightful memoir of the West at the turn of the century... His drawings add flavor to this colorful little book."-Southwest Review Southwest Review

Synopsis:

'Lynn Scott's book will make you wish you had been there, too' - Charles Kuralt. 'Vivid and engrossing' - "New York Times Book Review". 'Scott's story is full of family spirit and awesome details for today's kids - a real treat for kids in 1906 was ten cents worth of raisins. This is a useful resource for teachers looking for ways to bring American history alive' - "Kirkus Reviews". 'What was it like when you were a kid? Lynn H. Scott gives us his answer in [a] delightful memoir of the West at the turn of the century...His drawings add flavor to this colorful little book' - "Southwest Review"."There is much of the mythic in this book...Every grandfather or grandmother owes to the next generation an accounting of his or her fragments of a life seen and lived such as Lynn H. Scott's "The Covered Wagon and Other Adventures" represents. Family history, oral history, transposed to drawings and words, loom so simple here as to become absolutely fundamental' - "South Dakota History". In the spring of 1906 the Scott family traveled six hundred miles by covered wagon in search of relief from asthma and rheumatism - from St. Paul, Nebraska, to Thermopolis, Wyoming.The entire trip, recounted by a youngster, is full of vividly remembered adventures.

There are encounters with Indians, sheepmen, and freighters; crises involving rattlesnakes, black ants, rock avalanches, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever; descriptions of hunting antelope and camping out under the stars. More excitement is in store when the family settles on a small ranch at the edge of the badlands. "The Covered Wagon" is charmingly illustrated by sketches that Lynn Scott originally drew for his grandchildren.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0803292228
• ISBN 13: 9780803292222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135