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Scrib / by David Ives.

Summary:

In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian.

Item details

ISBN: 0060598417
ISBN: 0060598425 (lib. bdg.)
Physical Description: 188 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2005.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

"Some characters, adventures, letters and conversations from the year 1863, including a deadly chase in the wilderness of the Fearsome Canyon, all as told by Billy Christmas, who was there." -- T.P.

Formatted Contents Note:

In which I find my self pursued -- Attack at the triple X ranch -- What I had fled -- A visit with a Paiute -- In which Ii venture among the talking rocks and meet crazy James Kincaid -- I write a letter and am murdered -- I find I have been curiously robbed -- Epistolary -- I try the good life and fail misrably -- Having been robbed again, I prepare to live a moral civilized life -- In which the moral life finds me wanting and vice-a-versa -- Whilst in captivity, I meet a hyena, man in the black hat, and a visiter from afar -- I come to judgment -- In which I regain something I had lost -- Another murder -- I deliver a stonishing message and go to the Smeeds, where I meet Dexter -- Siege -- Canyon -- End of it all and some beginnings, too.

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Subject:

Adventure and adventurers > Fiction.
Letter writing > Juvenile fiction.
West (U.S.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Fiction.

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