Tree in the trail / written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 039518228X
- 9780395182284
- 039554534X
- 9780395545348
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Holling, Holling Clancy | Mending | 33111002260723 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The history of the Great Plains and the Santa Fe Trail is told in text and pictures by focusing on a cottonwood tree and the events that happen around it.
Lone sapling -- People who walked -- Arrows and spears -- Feasting on the hill -- New animal on the plains -- Bearer of messages -- Talking-tree -- Thunderbird speaks -- Tappers cross the plains -- Wheels turn on the Santa Fe Trail -- Jed and Buck -- Race for life -- Post Office tree -- Cottonwoods don't live foreve -- Old tree dies -- Kansas twister -- Past comes to light -- Ox yoke -- Yoke goes to Independence -- Rendezvous at Council Grove -- Return to the hill -- How the wheels rolled westward -- At Bent's Fort -- Hill that was called a mouse -- Yoke comes to Santa Fe -- Heart of the west -- End of the trail.
The story of a cottonwood tree growing on the Great Plains, and its contributions to the history of the Southwest.