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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