Tree in the Trail [SCM]
by Holling Clancy Holling Author
The story of a cottonwood tree that watched the pageant of history on the Santa Fe Trail where it stood, a landmark to travelers, for more than 200 years.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 039554534X
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 27
- Pages
- 64
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- Kansas
- Historical Setting
- 1821 - 1880
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Copyright
- 1990
- Written
- 1942
Chapters
- 1 The Lone Sapling
- 2 The People Who Walked
- 3 Arrows and Spears
- 4 The Feasting on the Hill
- 5 A New Animal on the Plains
- 6 The Bearer of Messages
- 7 The Talking-Tree
- 8 The Thunderbird Speaks
- 9 Trappers Cross the Plains
- 10 Wheels Turn on the Santa Fe Trail
- 11 Jed and Buck
- 12 The Race for Life
- 13 Post Office Tree
- 14 Cottonwoods Don't Live Forever
- 15 The Old Tree Dies
- 16 A Kansas Twister
- 17 The Past Comes to Light
- 18 The Ox Yoke
- 19 The Yoke Goes to Independence
- 20 Rendezvous at Council Grove
- 21 Return to the Hill
- 22 How the Wheels Rolled Westward
- 23 At Bents Fort
- 24 The Hill That Was Called a Mouse
- 25 The Yoke Comes to Santa Fe
- 26 The Heart of the West
- 27 End of the Trail
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