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Crossing the Colorado Rockies 1864

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By Laurie Lawlor
Publisher Simon Schuster - (Aladdin)
Crossing the Colorado Rockies 1864
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WAGONS WEST! As the Civil War rages, the Hitchcocks head west to Pikes Peak. Theyve left their Pennsylvania home far behind as they ascend the Rocky Mountains, certain theyll find gold! Thirteenyearold Eda keeps a secret journal as they travel through hostile Ute country and finally find shelter in a brokendown cabin. With scant food and only howling wolves for company, everything seems strange and frightening until Edas seventeenyearold sister Belle gets a job teaching, and Eda and her oldest sister Lucy meet an unusual but friendly family of actors. Eda and her sisters are beginning to settle in when Pa decides the family should return home. But as they travel down out of the high country, they meet with neartragedy and are forced to stay in roughandtumble Denver. Here, penniless and freezing, theyre herded into a tent city with nothing left of their former lives but a few clothes and tattered memories. Thats when she meets an enemy who teaches her the most importantlesson shell ever learn....

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36298 words36,298 words
224 pages224 pages
Lexile 670LLexile 670L
Grade 3 to 6Grade 3 to 6
Age 8-11Age 8-11
Published 1999Published 1999

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Book ISBN:

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