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Country
  
United States

Genre
  
Historical novel

Publication date
  
1958

Final episode date
  
15 March 1964

Number of episodes
  
26

8.1/10
IMDb

Language
  
English

Publisher
  
First episode date
  
29 September 1963

Number of seasons
  
1

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Network
  
American Broadcasting Company

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The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimie, Dan O'Herlihy as his father, "Doc" Sardius McPheeters, and Michael Witney and Charles Bronson as the wagon masters, Buck Coulter and Linc Murdock, respectively.

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Plot introduction

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Taylor's realistic novel—despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off any school list at the time—was published in 1958 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. In it, the young Jaimie (spelled with two "i"s) accompanies a wagon train headed from St. Louis, Missouri, to California after the 1849 Gold Rush.

Plot summary

The novel alternates between Jaimie describing his journey by wagon train with commentary by his father, a Scottish doctor with an effervescent personality whose judgment is often clouded by his weakness for gambling and strong drink.

The novel contains, in graphic detail, some intense Native American customs, especially rite of passage.

Publishing history

  • Doubleday & Company. 1st edition. 1958. ISBN 1-141-39958-X. (may also be: ISBN 0-385-04930-7.)
  • Pocket. 1960. Paperback. ISBN 1-122-55331-5.
  • Arbor House. 1985. Paperback. ISBN 0-87795-756-8.
  • Main Street Books. Paperback reissue edition. 544 pages. December 1, 1992. ISBN 0-385-42222-9.
  • Chivers Audio Books. Audio cassette. October 1993. ISBN 1-56054-867-3.
  • Trivia

    In nine episodes of the television series, four of The Osmonds were cast as the singing sons of the Kissel family on the wagon train.

    References

    The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Wikipedia


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