Calico Dorsey: Mail Dog of the Mining Camps

by Susan Lendroth

Adam Gustavson (Illustrator)

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Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night kept this poch from his appointed rounds!

Back in the 1880s, when the Old West boomed with the rush for gold and silver, the miners of Calico, California, needed a mail carrier they could count on.  And they found him in a Border collie named Dorsey.  Based on the true story of the most celebrated canine mail carrier in U.S. history, Calico Dorsey tells the tale of a winsome stray who found both a home and a calling on the mining trails of the Old West.

An Author's Note includes a photograph of the real-life Dorsey, as well as historical information about the dog and the mining town he called home. 

  • ISBN10 1582463670
  • ISBN13 9781582463674
  • Publish Date 15 October 2010 (first published 28 September 2010)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 May 2017
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Tricycle Press
  • Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
  • Pages 32
  • Language English