Singing Paddles
By: by Julia Butler ; illustrated by Dorothea Cooke
Contributors: Gramatky, Dorothea Cooke, ill; Gramatky, Dorothea Cooke, illustrator
Publisher: Binfords & Mort
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Copyright date: 1937
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; History; Overland journeys to the Pacific
Description: Singing paddles is the story of the Blair family's cross-country covered-wagon trip from Kentucky to Cathlamet, Washington in 1843, led by Dr. Marcus Whitman.
Notes: Julia Butler Hansen was born in Cathlamet, Washington in 1907. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1930. Singing Paddles was a prize winner in the Juila Ellsworth Ford contest, a Juvenile book award, in 1935. Julia was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1939 and for served for 22 years. In 1960 she was elected to an unexpired term in the Congress which she served for 14 years.