Walking up a rainbow
Subtitle: being the true version of the long and hazardous journey of Susan D. Carlisle, Mrs. Myrtle Dessery, Drover Bert Pettit, and cowboy Clay Carmer and others
By: Theodore Taylor.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Fiction.; Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 -- Fiction.
Description: In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.