Title: Mr. Tucket
First published: November 1, 1995
Description: Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the man who will be called Mr. Tucket.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Pawnee Indians, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Western stories, Native Americans, Pawnee, North America, Pioneers, Kidnapping, Indians of north america, pawnee indians, fiction, Children's fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, Overland journeys to the pacific, fiction
Places: West (U.S.), Great Plains, United States