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Tree in the trail
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Tree in the trail

Author: Holling Clancy Holling
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., ©1970.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary: A struggling cottonwood sapling becomes a landmark to travelers, a peace-medicine tree, and after its death in 1834, a yoke which is used on the trail to Santa Fe.
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Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Holling Clancy Holling
ISBN: 039554534X : 9780395545348
OCLC Number: 22756498
Notes: "Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin books."
Description: [62] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Contents: Lone sapling -- People who walked -- Arrows and spears -- Feasting on the hill -- New animal on the plains -- Bearer of messages -- Talking-tree -- Thunderbird speaks -- Tappers cross the plains -- Wheels turn on the Santa Fe Trail -- Jed and Buck -- Race for life -- Post Office tree -- Cottonwoods don't live foreve -- Old tree dies -- Kansas twister -- Past comes to light -- Ox yoke -- Yoke goes to Independence -- Rendezvous at Council Grove -- Return to the hill -- How the wheels rolled westward -- At Bent's Fort -- Hill that was called a mouse -- Yoke comes to Santa Fe -- Heart of the west -- End of the trail.
Responsibility: written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.

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A struggling cottonwood sapling becomes a landmark to travelers, a peace-medicine tree, and after its death in 1834, a yoke which is used on the trail to Santa Fe.

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