In 1866, Josh Logan, his mother and his father are on a wagon train bound for Wyoming when natives attack the wagon train. In the course of the attack, Josh’s mother buries her son in sand with just a reed as a breathing tube. Josh is the only survivor of the attack. After everything, he buries the dead and makes his way westward again toward Wyoming. Josh Logan is just 13 years old. Josh is looking for Laramie, Wyoming where his mother was to teach school. Josh convinces the school to take him on in his mother’s place, even if just doing odd jobs. That’s where the adventure begins and it’s where Josh Logan begins keeping journals of his life in Laramie.
The Josh Logan Journals consist of seven journals. You’ll note they bear the numbers 1- 7 on the covers. Read in sequence, they draw a nice sketch of the flow of Josh’s life.
BOOK #5:
The Golden Summer – The year is 1872 and something new just happened. A place called Yellowstone becomes a National Park. The next year Josh could not resist, and he travels, on horseback and stagecoach, of course, to see this new natural wonder. Josh has a number of adventures during and meets several interesting people. This summer excursion consumes his entire summer, and he arrives back in Laramie just in time for the new school year. In this journal we get to spend the summer in Yellowstone, Cody, Wyoming, and in the Big Horn Basin. The highlight is that Americans, in small numbers, have already begun to travel to Yellowstone with varying results. Josh finds the west is still wild country where almost anything can happen.
