Riding the Flume

by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

  Dilsaver, Larry M., and William C. Tweed. Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Three Rivers, Calif.: Sequoia Natural History Association, Inc., 1990. This book focuses on the human story around the creation of these national parks.

  Johnston, Hank. They Felled the Redwoods: A Saga of Flumes and Rails in the High Sierra. Fish Camp, Calif.: Stauffer Publishing, 1996. Go to this book for fabulous photos of the sequoias and learn how they were cut down.

  Peattie, Donald Culross. A Natural History of Western Trees. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953. Biological information on the trees. His description of sequoias captures their quiet majesty.

  Sargent, Shirley. Pioneers in Petticoats: Yosemite’s Early Women 1856-1900. Yosemite, Calif.: Flying Spur Press, 1966. This book will give you a good idea of the unconquerable spirit of the women who helped settle California.

  Seagraves, Anne. Women of the Sierra. Hayden, Idaho: WESANNE Publications, 1990. Short biographies of the women who lived in the Sierra Nevada mountains between 1840 and 1890.

  Zauner, Phyllis. Those Spirited Women of the Early West: A Mini-History. Sonoma, Calif.: Zanel Publications, 1994. More biographies of the strong women of California and the West.

  Also by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

  Keeper of the Light

  The Deeper Song

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2002 by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis

  Riding the flume / by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch.

  p. cm.

  Summary: In 1894, fifteen-year-old Francie determines to fight the lumbermen and protect the largest sequoia tree ever seen which had been given to her sister just before her death six years earlier.

  ISBN 0-689-83823-9

  ISBN 978-1-4814-6111-5 (ebook)

  [1. Giant sequoia—Fiction. 2. Logging—Fiction. 3. Conservation of natural resources—Fiction. 4. Frontier and pioneer life-California—Fiction. 5. Depressions—1893—Fiction. 6. Sequoia National Park (Calif.)—I. Tide.

  PZ7.P4485585 Ri 2002

  [Fic]—dc21              2001042948