Seeking Efron

Using clues stashed with him in this blanket when he was left at the foundling home as a newborn baby, Timothy James, just turned 13, undertakes a perilous search across rough and tumble 1880 Kansas to find his father. Almost before he has begun, he has to survive a ferocious storm in a small boat on the raging Missouri River. He is joined by an Indian boy a few years older than he, and together they outrun a prairie fire, reunite a lost child with his family, confront cantankerous Indians, free four kidnapped boys and time and time again, find their search running into apparent dead ends. Written from the authors' perspective of positive values, it has, nestled within its pages, numerous gentle hints about living a good life.