Mr. Tucket

About this book

Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the man who will be called Mr. Tucket.

Subjects

• children's fiction
• fiction
• frontier and pioneer life
• frontier and pioneer life, fiction
• indians of north america
• indians of north america, pawnee indians, fiction
• juvenile fiction
• kidnapping
• native americans
• north america
• overland journeys to the pacific
• overland journeys to the pacific, fiction
• pawnee
• pawnee indians
• pioneers
• western stories
• west (u.s.), fiction