Boss of the Namko Drive: Growing Up in Chilcotin

by Paul St. Pierre

Book Overview

Not five minutes into the start of the Namko cattle drive, Frenchie Bernard, the drive's boss, is tossed by his feisty horse and breaks his leg. In pained whispers, he insists that his son Delore lead the drive. And so begins an adventure that takes 15-year-old Delore across the threshold to manhood. Along 200 miles of the remote Chilcotin plateau, Delore must boss his first drive. He must give commands to three men much older than himself; he is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888944942
• ISBN13: 9780888944948
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher