"West (U.S.)" . . "California" . . . . "During the summer of 1916 thirteen-year-old Fayette and her brother accompany their widowed mother on a mule trip into the California mountains, where she is to establish library outposts in isolated communities." . "Eight mules from Monterey" . . . . . . . . "Juvenile works" . . . "Fiction" . . . "Western stories" . . .