Title: 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
First published: 1986
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Orphans, Voyages and travels, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction, Overland journeys to the pacific, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction
Places: United States
Time periods: 1783-1865