Tucket Adventures
5 primary 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 2
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
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.