BREAD-AND-BUTTER JOURNEY

by Anne Colver ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 24, 1970

To the distress of Barbara Baum (of Bread-and-Butter Indian, 1964), it's dry bread without butter along the trail westward with Mother and Jonas, her brother, who's leading them and the Donners to their fathers' new family homesteads. Twins Trudy and Tess are no happier than Barbara to leave pet-crow Shadow, overseer of frequent tea-parties, and the other people and things that had made their birthplace special. But the journey has much more in store than just blisters (soothed with rattlesnake oil) and formidable Indians--in fact Mingo's tribe welcomes them to a feast and cares for limping Paint, and Flying Cloud scouts for trouble and warns them of storms. Barbara gives up her reader to Tuppy, a raggle-taggle boy of the woods, Mrs. Baum proffers two precious silver spoons to Philip Donner who must make his own way when a broken leg heals, one Mrs. Franklin in Hannahstown shelters them all while Tess recovers from an ear-lancing: by the end the long trip has churned up and spread round its own brand of milk and honey.

Pub Date: Sept. 24, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION