Hardcover, 544 pages
English language
Published July 19, 1958 by Doubleday.
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is the sweeping, romance-warmed story of the journey of a father and his son answering the lure of California gold in 1849.
It was a harsh trip, often halted by cutthroats, Indians, disease, and murder…yet a trip of pastoral beauty, full of wonder for an untrod land and awakening young love.
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters carries you along as swiftly as it moves from crisis to crisis in the long trek from Louisville to far California. The open-eyed clarity with which young Jaimie observed all around him — the skinning alive of a depraved bully, the incorrigible bombast of Dr. McPheeters, the nakedness of maidenly Jennie getting ready for bed — reveals the true picture of wagon-training West a century ago as painted by a major author.
The whole wagon train of characters — heroic or mean, good folk or bad — combine with …
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is the sweeping, romance-warmed story of the journey of a father and his son answering the lure of California gold in 1849.
It was a harsh trip, often halted by cutthroats, Indians, disease, and murder…yet a trip of pastoral beauty, full of wonder for an untrod land and awakening young love.
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters carries you along as swiftly as it moves from crisis to crisis in the long trek from Louisville to far California. The open-eyed clarity with which young Jaimie observed all around him — the skinning alive of a depraved bully, the incorrigible bombast of Dr. McPheeters, the nakedness of maidenly Jennie getting ready for bed — reveals the true picture of wagon-training West a century ago as painted by a major author.
The whole wagon train of characters — heroic or mean, good folk or bad — combine with the novel's humor, bloodletting, romance, and action to make The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters a special reward in excitement, bitter realism, and touching tenderness.