Ransom Wilcox

Horse & Dog Adventures in Early California: Short Stories & Poems (Wild Animal Books for Kids, #6) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ransom "Doc" Wilcox's ventures began in Taber, Alberta, Canada in 1907, but he was soon whisked to the back country of Northern California where his family farmed, tended livestock, and sometimes survived via hunting and fishingalways with dogs and horses.

Once, when the hunter became the preyof a charging wild boarWilcox stuck a pole he was carrying into the ground and climbed up! Another time his Australian Shepherd saved him from a mad pig.

Wilcox's love of animals, music, and the great outdoors flows in his nature-themed tales (fiction and nonfiction). They convey courage, devotion, and perseverance with warmth and sincerity.

"A bit of everything: adventure, melancholy, joy...common sense and pathos.... Simple language and homespun charm." Barbara Mojica, Top 1,000 Reviewer

Explore this 42-page, tween/middle grade book with eclectic characters, a physically challenged protagonist, happy horses, and pups today (for ages 9 and up). Don't miss the online extras, and read/listen to Wilcox's International-Book-Award-winning western: To Swallow the Earth.

Approximately 8,000 words edited by best-selling author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (Samuel Sailing: The True Story of an Immigrant Boy). Discover Beckstrand's 60 multicultural books and get free ebooks and lesson plans: PremioPublishing (worldwide rights Sept. 2013), libraries, and major book distributors. 5.25" x 8" soft cover YA book with images, also an ebook. JNF002000, NAT001000, NAT016000, BIO023000, PET004000, JUV039150, JUV015020; YNNH4, YNNJ24, YNNF; LCCN: 2013913405, ISBN: 978-0615856162, (ebook ISBN: 978-1301904747)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Karl Beckstrand
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301904747
• Artikelnr.: 48018582

Autorenporträt

Ransom "Doc" Wilcox was born in Taber, Alberta, Canada, in 1907 to David Adrian and Agnes Southworth Wilcox. He was the sixth of seven children. Because Rance was sickly, it was suggested that the family move to California. The family was part of a group of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) that bought land in Vina, north of Chico in 1907. Financial hardship forced the family to move often in search of work: Vacaville, Pope Valley, Gridley, Ukiah, Redwood Valley, Sebastopol, and Oakland. They farmed and tended livestock: sheep, cattle, horses, pigs, turkeys, and hens. They cured ham in a smoke house and did a lot of hunting and fishing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Once, to escape a charging boar, Wilcox stuck a pole he was carrying in the ground and climbed up!
One season the family lived in a tent while the men worked cutting hay. At harvest time everyone picked apples. Another year, Wilcox joined his father and brothers in Arizona, building a school on an American Indian reservation. Many elements of Wilcox's stories come from his early experiences.
In 1935 Wilcox married and began studying to be a chiropractor. But the Great Depression put his studies on hold. He tried several enterprises to support his familymost failed. So did the marriage.
In 1943 he enlisted in the army. Because of his hunting background they had him train soldiers in gunnery and target practice. Just before his unit was to go overseas, Wilcox got the flu. He missed the boatliterallyso was honorably discharged.
Between more failed marriages, Wilcox completed his studies and opened a chiropractic practice just off Union Square in San Francisco. He took his kids to see Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Seal Rock, Smugglers' Cove, the Presidio, Fleishhacker Zoo, and football games at Kezar Stadium. Later he moved to Hayward and opened a practice on B Street.
Wilcox's friends called him Ray (for R.A.) or Doc. Besides writing, Wilcox enjoyed singing and was an excellent dancer. He was good with his hands. He loved to walk in the great outdoors. Near the end of his life, he joked about leaving his body to science; "I'm sure they can use my brain. It's in perfect conditionnever been used." In a letter to his daughter, he wrote "In my heart I have no hatred or dislike for anyone. In my career I have eased many a person's pain and suffering." Wilcox died of cancer in 1992 and is buried in Ukiah, CA. His short stories and poems are published under the title, Horse ...