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Rough, Tough Charley

32 pp. | Tricycle | May, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58246-184-7 $15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Adam Gustavson. When Charley Parkhurst died in 1879, people discovered that this surly stagecoach driver was actually a woman. As a man, Charley had journeyed east to California, made a living, and voted--long before women obtained the right. Spare, sometimes abstruse quatrains sketch out Charley's life (no sources are mentioned); appended facts fill in details. Dark paintings skillfully extend the deception.
Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

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