![]() ![]() In nine episodes of the television series, four of The Osmonds were cast as the singing sons of the Kissel family on the wagon train. I thought I would give it a go after enjoying Annie Dillards THE LIVING, a story of late 19th century life of European settlers and Lummi natives in the developing area of Bellingham, in the state of Washington. The novel contains, in graphic detail, some intense Native American customs, especially rite of passage. Have had this book hanging around for years. ![]() The novel alternates between Jaimie describing his journey by wagon train with commentary by his father, a Scottish doctor with an effervescent personality whose judgment is often clouded by his weakness for gambling and strong drink. Louis, Missouri, to California after the 1849 Gold Rush. In it, the young Jaimie (spelled with two "i"s) accompanies a wagon train headed from St. Taylor's realistic novel-despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off any school list at the time-was published in 1958 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. ![]()
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