Scrib
By: by David Ives.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Letter writing -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian.
Notes: "Some characters, adventures, letters and conversations from the year 1863, including a deadly chase in the wilderness of the Fearsome Canyon, all as told by Billy Christmas, who was there." -- T.P.