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Tucket’s travels
tTucket’s travels is a great five book volume with Mr.Tucket, Call me Francis Tucket, Tucket’s Ride, Tucket’s Gold, and Tucket’s Home by Gary Paulson . Francis Tucket is a resilient 14 year old boy moving west with his family riding a wagon train. On Francis’s birthday his father got him a beautiful new rifle, although it was the beginning of the end for Francis, that day he was captured by Indians. Mr. Grimes is the wise, one armed mountain man that rescues Francis and teaches him how to survive the Wild West. Mr. Grimes kills Braid the deceptive Indian war leader and then walks away. Lottie and Billy are two children who Francis rescued from starvation, abandoned in the middle of nowhere after their father died from water disease, they became Francis’s family.
tThe events in the books have all been taken in one way or another from real life experiences. After scraping a meager existence from the wilderness, Francis always encounters a problem in which he needs to use his wit and resourcefulness to escape or regain what was taken from him. The fast pace adventuring and slow traveling make an unpredictable read. Gary Paulson’s writing is one of my favorite author styles. Gary likes a lot of the same things that I like to do, he is an outdoor adventurer like me, he fishes, hunts, and camps. So when he writes he thinks of stories that interest him and when you find an author that has your same interests then you might have a favorite author. I like survival, independence, struggles, and adventures in my books. Tucket’s travel’s has all of this in one volume and they flow together superbly.
tThe thing that sticks with me from the books is the relentless push to get back home. Francis spends years looking for his family and had many sidetracks along the way. Gary shows his readers the real hardships of the west and the troubles that Francis needs to overcome. You should take the determination out of the book and use it in your own life and hardships. After finishing the book I envied Francis for living in his time and doing the things he learned. I would have liked to live through a time where law was nothing and someone had to fend for himself in the great wide world.
tTucket’s travels is a great five book volume with Mr.Tucket, Call me Francis Tucket, Tucket’s Ride, Tucket’s Gold, and Tucket’s Home by Gary Paulson . Francis Tucket is a resilient 14 year old boy moving west with his family riding a wagon train. On Francis’s birthday his father got him a beautiful new rifle, although it was the beginning of the end for Francis, that day he was captured by Indians. Mr. Grimes is the wise, one armed mountain man that rescues Francis and teaches him how to survive the Wild West. Mr. Grimes kills Braid the deceptive Indian war leader and then walks away. Lottie and Billy are two children who Francis rescued from starvation, abandoned in the middle of nowhere after their father died from water disease, they became Francis’s family.
tThe events in the books have all been taken in one way or another from real life experiences. After scraping a meager existence from the wilderness, Francis always encounters a problem in which he needs to use his wit and resourcefulness to escape or regain what was taken from him. The fast pace adventuring and slow traveling make an unpredictable read. Gary Paulson’s writing is one of my favorite author styles. Gary likes a lot of the same things that I like to do, he is an outdoor adventurer like me, he fishes, hunts, and camps. So when he writes he thinks of stories that interest him and when you find an author that has your same interests then you might have a favorite author. I like survival, independence, struggles, and adventures in my books. Tucket’s travel’s has all of this in one volume and they flow together superbly.
tThe thing that sticks with me from the books is the relentless push to get back home. Francis spends years looking for his family and had many sidetracks along the way. Gary shows his readers the real hardships of the west and the troubles that Francis needs to overcome. You should take the determination out of the book and use it in your own life and hardships. After finishing the book I envied Francis for living in his time and doing the things he learned. I would have liked to live through a time where law was nothing and someone had to fend for himself in the great wide world.