Title: Maude March on the run!, or, Trouble is her middle name
Description: Orphans Sallie, 12, and Maude, 16, continue their adventures, again traveling west in search of their Uncle Arlen and a place they can call home. Maude is unjustly accused of being a horse thief, bank robber, and murderer, and the two girls and their companion, Joe Harden, barely manage to stay one step ahead of the law as they dash across desert and prairie. Joe is a charmingly hapless con man, and the interaction among these three characters provides lots of humor, especially when Maude's fame produces a bunch of copycat outlaws. Sallie's voice as the "wise innocent" with plenty of colorful language is just right as she sees through the hypocrisy of a delicious array of eccentric characters and repeatedly saves the day for her companions. Descriptive details about medical practices, terrain, railroads, food, towns, forts, etc., are woven seamlessly into the lively story and provide a real feel for the flavor of the Old West and life on the trail.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Adventure and adventurers, Sisters, Orphans, Frontier and pioneer life in fiction, Robbers and outlaws, Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Sisters in fiction, Robbers and outlaws in fiction, Orphans in fiction, Thieves, Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Robbers and outlaws, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Children's fiction
Places: old west
People: sallie and maude