Joe Henry's Return

By Marcia Melton

Readers met brave Joe Henry and his steady Pa as they went to the Montana gold fields in 1862 in Joe Henry’s Journey, the first book in this series. Back in Kentucky, they find their family in sorrow and trouble and their farm in shambles after the Civil War. With an elderly Grandma, two little girls, and a disabled, orphaned neighbor boy, Joe and Pa return to Montana where they hope they can find a home. Travel with them on adventures and discoveries as they find a new life, old friends, new adventures, and danger in Territorial Montana in 1866.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raven Publishing of Montana
• Release date: Jul 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781937849443

Marcia Melton

Marcia Melton is a librarian and a former teacher. The history of her family in Montana echoes back to the 1880s. She lives and writes in Arizona and Montana. She has published two historical novels for middle-grade children through Raven Publishing, Inc. The Boarding House is set in 1914 in Butte and Philipsburg, MT. Joe Henry's Journey is set in 1862 and heralds the journey of a young boy and his pa up the Missouri River to Fort Benton, and overland to the gold fields at Bannack, a year before Montana officially became a territory. She has written a sequel, slated to be publishing in 2017, called Joe Henry's Return: Territory Times.

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