mule girl

by Clark Parsons, Morgan Michels (Illustrator)

Overview

A teenage girl in 1885 in Mojave, CA, upon graduating from eighth grade, is not allowed, by her father, to go on to high school. She is kept at home to work in the family diner. She considers that one possible path to freedom from her controlling father is to sneak aboard a borax wagon headed for Death Valley.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156713769
Publisher:	Jujapa Press
Publication date:	07/28/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	216 KB

About the Author

The author grew up in Western Washington, studied in Tacoma, WA, Boulder, CO, Greeley, CO, Whidbey Island, WA. He's a US Army Veteran and is married with three grown children. He retired from Hewlett-Packard after 25 years, taught college at Gonzaga U, and at Bakersfield College (CA), where he first visited Tehachapi, Mojave, and Death Valley, CA, and became intrigued by the 20 Mule Team Borax period during the 1880s in the United States.