Tucket's Ride (book review 3)

Tucket’s Ride

By: Gary Paulson

 After Jason Grimes went after Braid (Pawnee leader) and Francis watched as Jason and Braid shot each other off their own horses. Francis was then alone with only his mare, rifle, and food he was alone.

So he decided to head north to meet up with wagon train to Oregon. Well what he thought was north was actually south towards Mexico. When Francis is on the wide open prairie he stays the night and what he awakes to is something much unexpected, two men with guns tell him that Francis is going to stay here while they take all of his possessions. So as they do the men go off miles and they left Francis a mule that was half dead. So Francis decided that he was going to follow them from a distance on foot and then they went to sleep he was going to take his stuff back. When Francis finally caught up to them they were just making camp so when he thought it was the perfect time and snuck in he got his rifle and some of the small things but one of the men woke up and saw Francis. Then Francis raised his rifle and he took his stuff back.

After a couple days of riding he sees something that looks like the top of a covered wagon, Francis thinks he is hallucinating but when he moves closer he hears a strange noise. So he decides to go in and take a look inside and when he goes to look inside he sees two children that are 12 years old and 8 years old. Their names are Lottie and Billy, they were abandoned from the wagon train headed for Oregon when their father became sick with Cholera and they were forced to leave so they didn’t get anyone else sick. Read the book to find out the end.