The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series.
For several episodes, The Osmonds were cast as the singing sons of the Kissel family.
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[edit] The novel
Taylor's realistic novel for young people was published in 1958 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. In it, the young Jaimie (spelled with two "i"s) accompanies a wagon train headed from St. Louis, Missouri, to California after the 1849 Gold Rush.
The novel alternates between Jaimie describing his journey by wagon train to California with commentary by his father, a Scottish doctor with an effervescent personality whose judgment is often clouded by his weakness for gambling and strong drink.
The novel contains, in graphic detail, some intense Native American customs, especially rite of passage.
[edit] Publishing history
- Chivers Audio Books. Audio cassette. October 1993. ISBN 1-560548-67-3.
- Main Street Books. Paperback reissue edition. 544 pages. December 1, 1992. ISBN 0-385422-22-9.
- Arbor House. 1985. Paperback. ISBN 0-877957-56-8.
- Pocket. 1960. Paperback. ISBN 1-122553-31-5.
- Doubleday & Company. 1st edition. 1958. ISBN 1-141399-58-X. (may also be: ISBN 0-385049-30-7.)
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[edit] Pulitzer Prize
| Preceded by: A Death in the Family by James Agee |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1959 |
Succeeded by: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury |
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