First printed in St. Nicholas, these stories begin in a hillside garden between the Sierra snows and the warm California valleys, where an almond and a fig tree teach a lesson in patience. Others follow children to an Idaho picnic, an engineers’ camp in a canyon where a former sailor drives the team, a lamb that cannot keep up, and the gates on grandfather’s farm.
Gentle Western stories for young readers by a writer who lived the mining-camp life she drew. Download the free EPUB.