Scrib

By David Ives

Subjects: History, Adventure stories, Juvenile fiction, Letter writing, fiction, Fiction, West (U.S.) Civil War, 1861-1865, Children's fiction, Letter writing, West (u.s.), fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Adventure and adventurers

Description: 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.