Bellboy: A Muletrain Journey - Hardcover

McClain, Margaret S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0962246816 ISBN 13: 9780962246814

Publisher: New Mexico Pub, 1990

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From School Library Journal:

Gr 6 Up-- A kind of Horatio Algerish tale with a lot going for it--interesting, factual details; heady happenings; and a boy coming of age. Time: 1870s. Place: northwest California forest wildernesses of the Trinity, Marble, and Salmon Mountains. In order to help his widowed mother support the family, 12-year-old Jake takes a job as a bellboy--a lad who rides the lead animal of a muletrain. This is the story of Jake's first trip--long, hard, adventurous, and sometimes dangerous. The trip ends with an encounter with a notorious bandit who is after the gold the mules are carrying. The book is illustrated with many small, intriguing sketches. McClain offers good reading about California in the 1870s, some contrary mules, Hoppa Indians, lurking Bigfoot, miners, scalawags, and a lot of real nice folks along the way. --George Gleason, Department of English, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield

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About this edition

• Publisher: New Mexico Pub
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0962246816
• ISBN 13: 9780962246814
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1