Hite, Sid creator text New York Scholastic 2000 First Scholastic paperback printin, November 2001 monographic 202 pages : 19 cm In 1872, while journeying from Texas to Kansas, a Civil War veteran named Melvin meets a sixteen-year-old orphan, another Melvin, and they give each other nicknames and become partners and traveling companions on an exciting adventure. Q 880 Lexile Sid Hite. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Fiction Orphans Fiction PZ7.H62964 St 2000 813.54 0439098289 DLC 20231110114423.0 2220 eng