All the horrors of the trail west, of the Cold Rush push, of Indian - and white - behavior go hand in hand with the decency and humanity the McPheeters engender and encounter. A story that bulges - with history, incident, people and places - has a good humored quality in its father and son recital, in its contrast of personalities, in its matter of fact, boyish and adult, telling. But the friendship and help of their English traveling companion gives Doc another chance and repays the kindness of their other friends.

There the gold - which they finally find - is the means of their losing their fortune, of the death of Jaimie's enemies, and the near-downfall of his father when, in San Francisco, he is almost lost to alcohol. A winter with the Mormons in Salt Lake City brings trouble for Jennie, now a widow, and Doc through the vengeance of the Danites but they are aided on their way to California. Their party is guided by Coulter, meets Indian savagery and attack, hardships, death and romance (for Jennie) Jaimie is captured by Indians, freed by Coulter, and becomes the friend of a Pawnee chief who saves them from another band of redskins. Jaimie rescues a girl, Jennie, wins enemies, is rescued himself and, with his father again, heads westward for gold. Fleeing Louisville because of debts, Doc takes Jaimie with him, manages to lose him quite promptly and continues his effervescent way to Independence. Sardius McPheeters, tell the story in turns, each, generally, leaving the other up a creek. are, to say the least, precarious for he and his father, Dr. In nine episodes of the television series, four of The Osmonds were cast as the singing sons of the Kissel family on the wagon train. The novel contains, in graphic detail, some intense Native American customs, especially rite of passage. The novel alternates between Jaimie describing his journey by wagon train with commentary by his father, a Scottish doctor with an effervescent personality whose judgment is often clouded by his weakness for gambling and strong drink. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters: With Dan OHerlihy, Kurt Russell, Mark Allen, Meg Wyllie. Louis, Missouri, to California after the 1849 Gold Rush. In it, the young Jaimie (spelled with two 'i's) accompanies a wagon train headed from St. Taylor's realistic novel-despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off any school list at the time-was published in 1958 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.

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