The Bears of Blue River / Edition 1

by Charles Major

Overview

The Bears of Blue River describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite familiar with the dangers and rigors of frontier life. As the story unfolds, the boy becomes lost in the forest, encounters the fierce one-eared bear, and is nearly caught by a bear as he dozes next to what he thinks is a bearskin. This is a book for children or adults who love nature and tales of early pioneer life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253203304
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	09/22/1984
Series:	Library of Indiana Classics
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	652,116
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1260L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 - 12 Years

About the Author

Charles Major (1856-1913) was an American lawyer and novelist. Born to an upper-middle class Indianapolis family, Major developed in interest in both law and English history at an early age and attended the University of Michigan from 1872 through 1875, being admitted to the Indiana bar association in 1877. Shortly thereafter he opened his own law practice, which launched a short political career, culminating in a year-long term in the Indiana state legislature. Writing remained an interest of Major, and in 1898, he published his first novel, When Knighthood Was in Flower. The novel about England during the reign of King Henry VIII was an exhaustively researched historical romance, and became enormously popular, holding a place on the New York Times bestselling list for nearly three years. Major continued to write and publish several additional novels, to varying degrees of success, as well as a number of children's adventure stories, most set in and around his native state of Indiana.

Table of Contents

Chapter I
The Big Bear

Chapter II
How Balser got a Gun

Chapter III
Lost in a Forest

Chapter IV
The One-eared Bear

Chapter V
The Wolf Hunt

Chapter VI
Borrowed Fire

Chapter VII
The Fire Bear

Chapter VIII
The Black Gully

Chapter IX
On the Stroke of Nine

Chapter X
A Castle on Brandywine