Fr. 18.70

Key City on the River

English · Paperback / Softback

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On a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons are about to cross the dark Mississippi River into Iowa Territory on a tiny boat. Penny Cooper, Nate Tilden, Aunt Sunday, and Jonathan and Ella Butterman are full of questions. Aunt Sunday just wants to know if they're going to drown. Jonathan and Ella wonder if they will succeed in the new Territory. And Penny and Nate are eager to learn if they are going to be free--to marry, to prosper, to live as free people.
Aunt Sunday, Penny, and Nate were slaves in Kentucky, not a year before. What will the new Iowa Territory decide on the question of owning human beings? No one yet knows.
The little group survives the Mississippi crossing and settles in Key City. There isn't much to the town: a few log cabins and modest buildings in a forest opening. And very rough, very tough lead miners, including the mad Ginn brothers who hate Nate and his dark skin. They can't forget he stopped them from stealing Jonathan's horse. Storm clouds are brewing.
Key City on the River is based on fact and takes place in a real town. It explores a little known time in early American history as well as the timeless issue of otherness mixed with hope for the future.

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Greta Gorsuch is the author of The Cell Phone Lot and the forthcoming Post Office on the Tokaido, also published by Gemma Open Door for Literacy.

Product details

Authors Greta Gorsuch
Publisher Gemma
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.03.2019
 
EAN 9781936846795
ISBN 978-1-936846-79-5
No. of pages 120
Dimensions 108 mm x 178 mm x 7 mm
Weight 103 g
Series Gemma Open Door
Gemma Open Door
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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