When Oriole traveled westward: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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When Oriole traveled westward is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Marlowe, Amy Bell.
Catalogue synopsis
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"When Oriole Traveled Westward" by Amy Bell Marlowe is a children's adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows spirited Oriole Putnam from a New England harbor toward the wide-open West as she bonds with a rancher’s twins, meets a troubled boy from Montana, and pursues the mystery of her missing parents. Expect family bonds, courage in sudden danger, and a journey that promises ranch-country adventures. The opening of the novel finds Oriole skating across a frozen harbor with her twin charges when a racing iceboat forces them into the water; a stranger, Teddy Ford, dives in and saves them. Grateful yet wary, Teddy reveals he once worked for the twins’ father, rancher Harvey Langdon, who accused him of stealing family silver; at Oriole’s urging he resolves to return West and clear his name. Langdon retrieves the twins, appreciates the rescue, invites Oriole to visit the ranch, and prepares to head home with the children and their recovering nurse. Meanwhile, school-day tensions surface in a prank gone wrong when a neighbor boy’s ram smashes a sun-parlor window. Finally, sobering news arrives from a rescued sailor: Oriole’s father likely perished during the evacuation of the Helvetia, while her mother may have been picked up by a tramp ship, leaving hope—and questions—about her whereabouts.
Book and edition facts
- Title: When Oriole traveled westward
- Author credits: Marlowe, Amy Bell
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Cowgirls -- Juvenile fiction
- Girls -- Societies and clubs -- Juvenile fiction
- Outlaws -- Juvenile fiction
- Ranch life -- Juvenile fiction
- Rescues -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Twins -- Juvenile fiction
- Western stories
Gutenberg collections
- Category: Adventure
- Category: American Literature
- Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
- Category: Novels
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