Ten-year-old Kip and his older sister Scootie spend a summer at the Five Barb Ranch, where the old cowboy known as Uncle Bill teaches them to ride and rope and take care of themselves wherever they are in cow country.
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James was a popular Western writer who penned a string of self-illustrated cowboy stories for Scribner from the 1920s through the 1950s. Mountain Press is republishing many of James's works as the "Tumbleweed Series." This installation introduces Uncle Bill, who shares cowboy lore with two city kids who come West to spend the summer on a ranch. True pieces of Americana.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy (Tumbleweed) (Paperback)
In his preface, James explains that his reason for writing this book was to answer the "many questions and of the kind that's been asked of me often." Although packaged in the guise of a story, UNCLE BILL manages to be little more than a question and answer book-and only slightly more entertaining.The premise is simple: two city children, Scootie and Kip Powers, come west to visit their cattleman uncle for a summer. Their uncle, being busy with ranch affairs, turns the kids over to an old cowpuncher known as "Uncle Bill" (no relation). Uncle Bill hauls the kids all across the range, teaching them to ride, rope, and take care of themselves. Although a few of Uncle Bill's stories are amusing, his unending instructive speeches have a decidedly didactic feel. I rather doubt that even children would find this story entertaining.
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