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Author:

Taylor, Theodore, 1922-

Title:

Walking up a rainbow : being the true version of the long and hazardous journey of Susan D. Carlisle, Mrs. Myrtle Dessery, Drover Bert Pettit, and cowboy Clay Carmer and others / Theodore Taylor.

Publisher:

Dell,

Copyright Date:

1988, c1986

Description:

275 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Orphans--Fiction.
Overland journeys to the Pacific--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
United States--Fiction.--1783-1865--Fiction.

Notes:

"Laurel-leaf books."

Summary:

In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.

ISBN:

9780440200390
0440200393

OCLC:

(OCoLC)17588315

Locations:

KHPB566 -- Donnellson Public Library (Donnellson)

HOPC845 -- Hull Public Library (Hull)

GWPB501 -- Prairie City Public Library (Prairie City) — TF TAY

RXPC135 -- Rockwell City Public Library (Rockwell City)

CIPB482 -- Victor Public Library (Victor)