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Tree in the trail / written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1970]Copyright date: ©1970Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 039518228X
  • 9780395182284
  • 039554534X
  • 9780395545348
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: The story of a cottonwood tree growing on the Great Plains, and its contributions to the history of the Southwest.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Holling, Holling Clancy Mending 33111002260723
Total holds: 1

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.

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