Title: Joe Henry's journey up the Missouri River to the Montana gold fields, 1862
Description: Eleven-year-old Joe Henry Grummond joins his twice-widowed father on an arduous journey from Kentucky to the gold fields of Bannack, Montana, in 1862, and as they try to earn enough to make a fresh start back home, they face a bully, outlaws, harsh winters, and back-breaking labor.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction, Voyages and travels, Fathers and sons, Gold mines and mining, History, Children's fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Montana
Time periods: 19th century