The dowser's son
By: Kimberly Willis Holt.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805080209
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Dowsing -- Fiction; Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
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