Bud & Me : The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys - Alta Abernathy

Alta Abernathy, Barbara Harris, William B. Rogers

Category: Adventure

Tags: Adventure, Misc. Non-fiction, Teen & Young Adult

Ripped direct from CD and encoded at 128kbps to .M4B using Audiobook Builder., Bud & Me is one of the 20th Centurys most exciting true stories of courage and adventure. The year is 1905. The new century is still in its infancy. Automobiles are little more than rich mens toys and many short-sighted people feel that everything that can be invented has been invented! In the early 1900s there are only 150 miles of paved road in the entire country. Fifty percent of Americans live and work on farms. Radios and refrigerators are still years away. Women are not allowed to vote yet and Teddy Roosevelt is in office. Against this background come two adverturesome boys, Temple and Bud Abernathy. Raised by their widowed father, Catch-em-Alive Jack Abernathy, known as the man from Oklahoma who catches wolves with his hands . . . the boys, ages 5 and 9, set out on a series of daring rides across America. First, alone on horseback from Frederick, Oklahoma to Sante Fe, New Mexico and back. Then to New