The Boy in the Picture: The Craigellachie Kid and the Driving of the Last Spike (History) [Excellent]－Amazon

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The Boy in the Picture: The Craigellachie Kid and the Driving of the Last Spike (History): Ray Argyl

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Publication Date: July 26, 2010 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: History

Edward Mallandaine was there! To prove it he thrust himself into the historic photograph of the "Last Spike" being driven to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Surrounded by the railway dignitaries of the time, his young face peers out amid their frosty beards.

Edward had just turned eighteen when he left his home in Victoria, British Columbia, to join the Canadian militia to fight Louis Riel in the North-West Rebellion of 1885. Hired to ride dispatches over the unfinished stretch of railway in British Columbia, he meets highway men, high officials, men of the North-West Mounted Police, and the denizens of saloons hidden away in mountain passes. He survives the lawlessness of remote towns and railway camps, rubs shoulders with Chinese labourers struggling to blast a right-of-way through the towering peaks of Eagle Pass, and makes a freezing midnight ride by railway flatcar to reach the outpost of Craigellachie just in time.

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Product Details:

Reading level: Ages 9 and up
Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Dundurn (July 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1554887879
ISBN-13: 978-1554887873
Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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