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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. |
Abstract:
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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