Jumping-Off Place
Author: first_name: Marian Hurd
last_name: McNeely
Language: English
Year: 1929

Set in 1910, "The Jumping-Off Place" is the story of four orphaned children who leave their home in Wisconsin to "prove up" their claim to a parcel of land in South Dakota.  
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The four Linville children -- Becky, age seventeen, and her younger siblings Dick, Phil and Joan -- had planned to take on this opportunity with the help and guidance of their Uncle Jim.  His untimely death means they must "prove up" the claim on their own.
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Uncle Jim had planned carefully, and had left