Crossing the Colorado Rockies, 1864 (American Sisters Series)

By Laurie Lawlor

Book Overview

WAGONS WEST As the Civil War rages, the Hitchcocks head from Pennsylvania toward the Rocky Mountains, certain they'll find gold Thirteen-year-old Eda keeps a journal as they travel through hostile country and take shelter in a broken-down cabin. The Hitchcock girls are unaccustomed to roughing it. Everything seems strange and frightening until Eda's 17-year-old sister Belle gets a job, and Eda and her oldest sister, Lucy, meet an unusual family of actors. The sisters are just settling in when Pa decides the family should return home. But as they travel, they meet near-tragedy and are forced to stay in rough-and-tumble Denver. Penniless and freezing, they're herded into a tent city with nothing left but a few clothes and tattered memories. Eda's certain they'll never escape. That's when she meets an enemy who teaches her the most important lesson she'll ever learn....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671775723
• ISBN13: 9780671775728
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Aladdin
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.7" x 5.2"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

A great book.

Because of her father's debts, thirteen-year-old Eda Hitchcock and her family are on their way west to Pike's Peak, hoping to strike it rich. After a long and difficult journey, they're finally almost there. But living in a tumbledown cabin in the wilderness and losing everything they own to thieves isn't what they expected. Nothing seems to go right. Eda sometimes wonders, will they ever get back home? This was a great book. It was interesting, and exciting, and had a likeable main character.