Characters
How does Sam die?
What is by execution?
What side of the war does Sam join to fight?
What is the Patriots?
What side of the war does Sam support and does this opinion change?
What is Patriots and no?
What causes Sam to run away in the beginning of the book?
What is Father kicks him out after they disagree over the war?
Who is the narrator of the story?
Who is Tim Meeker?
Why does Tim attend Sam's execution?
What is he knows Sam would want someone there, mother won't go, and he needs to claim the body?
Who do Tim and Life Meeker run into on their way to sell cattle at Verplancks Point?
Who is cowboys?
Why does Father disagree with the war?
Why is Sam sentenced to be executed?
What is he is framed as a cattle thief?
What is the name of the Meeker's cow?
What is Old Pru?
Who fights Tim to stop him from delivering Mr. Heron's letter?
Who is Betsy Read?
How does Father (Life Meeker) die?
What is from Cholera on a prison ship?
What side of the war does Tim ultimately support by the end of the book?
What is neither side?
Why is Sam framed as a cattle thief?
What is the real cattle thieves blame Sam to protect themselves?
What is another name for the Continental army?
What is Patriots, Minutemen, Colonists, Rebels
Who is Tom Warrups?
Who is a Native American in town and hides Sam when he comes to town?
Why is the attempt to rescue Sam pointless?
What is the prisoners had been moved and weren't there to take the bayonet that Tim threw?
What does Mother do to stand up for her beliefs after her husband and son are killed because of the war?
What is refuse to serve Continental officers in the tavern?
Why does Tim decide to support neither side of the war?
What is he has seen both sides do terrible things to people?
What does it mean to grant clemency?
What is give mercy, grant a pardon, forgive a crime?
What happens to Jerry Sanford?
What is he dies on a prison ship and his body is dumped in the water?
How does Ned die?
What is Ned is decapitated by British troops?
Why do Rebels get mad at Life Meeker for selling cattle at Verplancks point?
What is they claim he is selling cattle to British troops?
Why does Tim feel more like a grown up towards the end of the book?
What is he has had to have more responsibilities since Father is gone?
What is a military attack when troops/soldiers surround a town/building?