Mr. Tucket

The Tucket Adventures, Book 1

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: John Randolph Jones

It is 1848, and Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family. Yesterday he celebrated his 14th birthday on the tailgate of a Conestoga wagon in the foothills of the Rockies. Today, he is going to practice with his new birthday present, a Lancaster rifle. Falling far behind the wagon train, Francis loses sight of his family and is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians. Saved by a one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes, Francis takes off with his rescuer on a wild adventure peopled by actual historical characters, including Jim Bowie, and set against an historically-accurate background of the Old West.

©1994 Gary Paulsen (P)1994 Recorded Books

loved the book! thanks. I will tell others of

I will tell others of this book...would have liked one more chapter of struggle to find his family and they were ok.

Gary Paulsen at his best

wish i had known about this series long ago but I just fell in love with the hatchet series and the haymedow I never got around to the tucket series

the great fire

I liked the shooting competition in the beginning of the story when the kid was getting mad when he lost to a one armed man

Great story telling!

Couldn’t pull myself away from listening to this adventure book! Can’t wait to share it.

How Tucket went from a kid that new nothing from basically a mountain man

He met so many other people along the way, and the story went from happy to sad to happy and you never knew what was gonna happen next