In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian.
year: 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: letter writing, fiction, adventure and adventurers, historical fiction, adventure fiction, west (u.s.), history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, western stories