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Period: to
Span of the book
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Sam's return home
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Sam Deserts the house for the army
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Continental soldiers arrive to take guns from the people in Reading
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Mr Heron asks Tim to deliver letters for him
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Life and Tim head out for Verplanks Port
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Life is kidnapped by "cowboys"
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Tim and Mother find out that life is dead
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Sam is framed as a cattle thief
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Gen. Putnam refuses their plea for clemency
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Sam is executed
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Epilogue