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Illustrated by Pat Brocksmith Walsh
Published by: TCU Press
48 Pages, 9.00 x 9.00 in
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Jackrabbit Jewel and Conejo Grande find themselves immersed in a new adventure along the Butterfield Overland Mail route. This mail route covered a distance of 2,800 miles, beginning in St. Louis, Missouri, and ending in San Francisco, California. As in the previous adventure of Jackrabbit Jewel in Jackrabbit Jewel and the Longhorn Cattle Drive, this story blends the history of the southwestern United States with Texas Tall Tale.
The president of the Overland Mail Company, John Butterfield, sends Jackrabbit Jewel an urgent message. Due to a lack of stagecoach drivers, he needs Jewel to drive the stagecoach from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to San Francisco. In addition, he needs Conejo Grande to pull the stagecoach. In addition to the bundles of U.S. mail, they are transporting three passengers to California. The trip is fraught with danger during every stage of their journey, but Jewel has keen frontier knowledge and the help of Conejo Grande and her passengers.
Trey Armstrong was born and raised in Pecos, Texas. He is the fourth generation of a West Texas pioneer ranching family. He received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M University in 2003. He and his wife Susanne, who is also a veterinarian, own and operate Sandhills Veterinary Clinic in Monahans, Texas. They have three children.
Pat Brocksmith Walsh was raised in northeastern Montana, where she learned to appreciate a rural lifestyle on the wide open plains of her family ranch. She and her husband settled on the ranch, raising three children. With a degree in speech pathology, she works part-time as a speech therapist and full time as a ranch wife. Art has become a sideline that combines her love of ranching and history with children's books and speech activities.