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Title: In the Rocky Mountains

Author: W. H. G. Kingston

Illustrator: J.F.

Release Date: May 15, 2007 [EBook #21466]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

In the Rocky Mountains, by W H G Kingston.

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This is a very nicely written little book. It is easy to read or listen
to, yet is full of real-sounding dangerous situations from which the
young heroes escape with difficulty.

The hero and his sister, Ralph and Clarice, are from a farming family in
the middle states of America. The father, unwillingly followed by the
mother, decide to move to the west, but unfortunately first the mother,
and then the father, dies, and the two young people are left without an
adult to guide and lead them. Luckily, at that moment, a wagon train
comes by, and the children hail it. The man in charge of the wagon
train realises he is actually the uncle of these children, and agrees to
take them with him, becoming their greatly beloved Uncle Jeff.

Much of the rest of the book is taken up with various confrontations
with Indians, with wolves and a bear or two thrown in for good measure.

You will enjoy reading this book, and it certainly converts well to an
audiobook so that you can listen to it.

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IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, BY W H G KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

HOW UNCLE JEFF CAME TO "ROARING WATER"--THE SITUATION OF THE FARM--THE
INMATES OF THE HOUSE--MY SISTER CLARICE AND BLACK RACHEL--UNCLE JEFF--
BARTLE WON AND GIDEON TUTTLE--ARRIVAL OF LIEUTENANT BROADSTREET AND HIS
MEN--THE TROOPERS QUARTERED IN THE HUT--OUR FARM-LABOURERS--SUDDEN
APPEARANCE OF THE REDSKIN WINNEMAK--HIS FORMER VISIT TO THE FARM--
CLARICE ENCOUNTERS HIM AT THE SPRING--BADLY WOUNDED--KINDLY TREATED BY
CLARICE AND RACHEL--HIS GRATITUDE.

We were most of us seated round a blazing fire of pine logs, which
crackled away merrily, sending the sparks a