Tucket's Home

Blurb

Tucket's Home is the fifth novel in The Tucket Adventures by Gary Paulsen. Francis finally recovering from a rattlesnake bite, he continues the trek to Oregon with Lottie and Billy. On their way they encounter a greenhorn English adventurer and his servants, Jason Grimes, murderous outlaws and a wagon train of men heading west to establish farms for their families.They finally find Mr.Tucket's family in the end and start all sorts of businesses with the gold and silver. Billy Becomes a trader to China. Francis and Lottie develop feelings for each other and get married. It ends by saying that Francis thinks about Mr.Grimes before he sleeps every night. It was published in 2000 by Random House.
It was later turned into a five-part omnibus, entitled Tucket's Travels, along with the rest of the novels in The Tucket Adventures by Random House and released in 2003.