Rascal

Rascal is a young adult novel about life in 1850. The book is classified as historical fiction and as a Western. There is action within the story, but the central theme is about life in three different areas of the country during the time frame. Wareham, Massachusetts, a young British immigrant begins his life in America. He purchases Rascal on his way to the farm, where he will work for a year. Travel from Wareham to New York City, then by train to Chicago, then by wagon train to Minneapolis in the Wisconsin Territory. It was in the Minnesota Territory upon arrival. Anoka, Minnesota, a small village on the Rum River, is the destination for a new farm. Circumstances led to a several-year venture into the west, north of the badlands, to hunt beaver, an industry in decline at that time. With a return to Anoka under different circumstances.