Francis Tucket Books
4 primary works • 5 total works
Book 1
It is June 1948 and Francis Tucket and his family are journeying westward to celebrate his fourteenth birthday. But en route they are attacked by a band of Indians and Francis is kidnapped - his only protection is his new rifle. Francis travels further and further from his family with his captors, living for the moment, fighting for survival and growing up a little too fast. Then he hooks up with Jason Grimes: a mysterious tough guy who knows the ways of the Indians and seems to Francis to be a kindred spirit. Francis feels he finally has a friend to help him through his ordeal - together they will survive. But Jason Grimes has a personal vendetta and a score to settle, and Francis soon realises that it's every man for himself . . .
Book 3
When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.
Book 4
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Book 5
Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way West to the Oregon Trail where they hope to find the Tucket family.
Fourteen-year-old Francis is heading west in a wagon train on the Oregon Trail when he’s kidnapped by Pawnees. His adventures during the two-year search for his family teach him how to live by the harsh code of the wilderness, and give readers an exciting panoramic vision of the West at a time of settlement and of war with Mexico. Along the way, Francis meets up with Mr. Grimes, a one-armed mountain man, and later rescues Lottie and Billy, children abandoned on the prairie. Together the three encounter bandits, soldiers, storms, eccentric travellers, and discover an ancient treasure. But the real treasure lies at the end of the trail—Tucket’s home.