When fire and death leave young William Brower an orphan, the family’s hired man Eben Holden puts the boy in a basket on his back and walks west out of Vermont, looking for a new home. They find it on a farm in the north country of New York, and the boy grows up amid backwoods humour and faith before heading for New York City and the Civil War.
A warm-hearted 1900 novel of rural American life, carried by Uncle Eb’s dialect wisdom. Download the free EPUB.
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