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FROM: Amy Schlumpf Manion <[removed]@aurora.edu>
REC'D: 2/6/03, 3:35 PM

I have another juvenile fiction ID request. My husband remembers a book
his teacher read to him in the 70s set in the (U.S.) "Wild West." It is
about a boy who believes he is an orphan. At some point in the story a
man comes into town. The boy and the man have a milk-drinking contest
and it turns out that the man is really the boy's father. I've checked
NoveList and WorldCat using every possible keyword combination I could
think of without success. Does it sound familiar to anyone? Thanks.

--
Amy Schlumpf Manion
Assistant Information Services Librarian
Aurora University
Aurora, IL

FROM: [removed]@juno.com
REC'D: 2/6/03, 5:41 PM

To narrow down your search, I'm pretty sure this is one of Sid
Fleishman's (sp?) books, but don't know offhand which one. (the
milk-drinking race stuck in my mind, too!)

Claudia Breland
King County Library System
[removed]@juno.com

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 15:28:17 -0600 Amy Schlumpf Manion
<[removed]@aurora.edu> writes:
> I have another juvenile fiction ID request. My husband remembers a
> book
> his teacher read to him in the 70s set in the (U.S.) "Wild West." It
> is
> about a boy who believes he is an orphan. At some point in the story
> a
> man comes into town. The boy and the man have a milk-drinking
> contest
> and it turns out that the man is really the boy's father. I've
> checked
> NoveList and WorldCat using every possible keyword combination I
> could
> think of without success. Does it sound familiar to anyone? Thanks.
>
> --
> Amy Schlumpf Manion
> Assistant Information Services Librarian
> Aurora University
> Aurora, IL
>
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/7/03, 8:09 AM

>From: [removed]@juno.com
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: juv fic story about orphan set in Wild West
>Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:32:51 -0800
>
>To narrow down your search, I'm pretty sure this is one of Sid
>Fleishman's (sp?) books, but don't know offhand which one. (the
>milk-drinking race stuck in my mind, too!)
>

I thought the same. And having read them all years back, I think the only
one that involved a boy who thought he was an orphan suddenly encountering
his father was "Jingo Django."

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