A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story...

After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.

"Luke's Adventures on the Oregon Trail is an historical fiction of travel in 1853 to Oregon. The story tells the experience from the viewpoint of twelve-year-old Luke Bishop. He describes preparing for the trip and his experiences on the trail. The first part of the book describes Luke's life on the farm and his parents' decision to travel to Oregon. His Father and Luke build a wagon, buy oxen, and his parents sell the farm. First they travel from...

Two brothers spend a year attending a one-room schoolhouse on the frontier.

Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm. An old woman tells her grandchildren how her beloved teenage brother was destroyed at the time of the frenzied hunt for dinosaur remains in Nebraska [before the turn of the century]. Vivid description, deeply felt characterization, and a simple yet intricately crafted plot are all hallmarks...

Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.

A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.