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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
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February 1, 2018
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February 28, 2018
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Mar 03, 2022 rated it it was amazing
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Robert Lewis Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, which I went into mostly blind and was surprised by an interesting, funny, story about one boy who travels across the frontier with his father in a quest to strike it rich during the California Gold Rush.

Jaimie's father is a doctor who likes gambling and alcohol which has put him into substantial debt and now believes that the answer to his problems lies in the California gold strikes. He convinces his wif ...more
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